Radeon RX 6800 XT vs R5 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated28
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data50.43
Power efficiencyno data15.60
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameSpectre SLNavi 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 September 2014 (10 years ago)28 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$649

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 cores2564608
Core clock speed497 MHz1825 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHz2250 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate7.952648.0
Floating-point processing power0.2545 TFLOPS20.74 TFLOPS
ROPs4128
TMUs16288
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.06.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 28 October 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 300 Watt

R5 Graphics has 1900% lower power consumption.

RX 6800 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Graphics and Radeon RX 6800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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