GeForce RTX 5080 vs Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking101not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.47no data
Power efficiency6.92no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameNavi 21GB203
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date3 August 2021 (3 years ago)2025
Launch price (MSRP)$4,999 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384010752
Core clock speed1800 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1967 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)400 Watt350 Watt
Texture fill rate472.1846.7
Floating-point processing power15.11 TFLOPS54.19 TFLOPS
ROPs96128
TMUs240336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Cores6084

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceApple MPXPCIe 5.0 x16
Length267 mm304 mm
WidthQuad-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount32 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s973.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 4x Thunderbolt1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 400 Watt 350 Watt

Pro W6800X Duo has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 5080, on the other hand, has 14.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro W6800X Duo and GeForce RTX 5080. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W6800X Duo is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 5080 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo
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