Radeon RX 6800S vs RX Vega 56 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated101
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.83
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega 10Navi 23
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2018 (6 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores35842048
Core clock speed1138 MHz1800 MHz
Boost clock speed1301 MHz2100 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate291.4268.8
Floating-point processing power9.326 TFLOPS8.602 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs224128
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s256.0 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, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.1.1251.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2018 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 100 Watt

RX 6800S has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and Radeon RX 6800S. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
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