Radeon Pro W6800X: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon Pro W6800X provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 40.32% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon Pro W6800X sales 3 August 2021 at a recommended price of $2,799 . This is a RDNA 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 32 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a quad-slot graphics card attached via Apple MPX interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Apple MPX power connector is required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon Pro W6800X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking101
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation13.98
Power efficiency14.05of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date3 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,799 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Radeon Pro W6800X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro W6800X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3840of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1800 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed2087 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors26,800 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate500.9of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power16.03 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs96of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs240of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Ray Tracing Cores60of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Pro W6800X and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfaceApple MPX
Length267 mm
WidthQuad-slot
Supplementary power connectorsApple MPX

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro W6800X: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2000 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro W6800X. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 4x Thunderbolt
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon Pro W6800X, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.1
Vulkan1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro W6800X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Pro W6800X 40.32

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Pro W6800X 15556

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon Pro W6800X is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Radeon Pro W6800X's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro W6800X is Quadro RTX 4000, which is slower by 1% and lower by 6 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Pro W6800X:

L40S 107.47
Quadro GP100 105.26
Radeon Pro W6800X 100
Quadro P6000 98.41
RTX A2000 88.24

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