CMP 50HX vs Radeon RX 6800

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking43not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation51.64no data
Power efficiency15.94no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNavi 21TU102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)24 June 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$579 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 cores38403584
Core clock speed1700 MHz1350 MHz
Boost clock speed2105 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate505.2296.6
Floating-point processing power16.17 TFLOPS11.07 TFLOPS
ROPs9680
TMUs240192
Tensor Coresno data448
Ray Tracing Cores6056

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin2x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB10 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s560.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs
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 Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2020 24 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 10 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm

RX 6800 has a 60% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

CMP 50HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6800 and CMP 50HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6800 is a desktop card while CMP 50HX is a workstation one.


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