Radeon Pro W6800X vs RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking653not rated
Place by popularity45not in top-100
Power efficiency21.43no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeNavi 21
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)3 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,799

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 cores5123840
Core clock speedno data1800 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz2087 MHz
Number of transistorsno data26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data500.9
Floating-point processing powerno data16.03 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

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).

Interfaceno dataApple MPX
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno dataQuad-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataApple MPX

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data32 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 4x Thunderbolt
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 3 August 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 200 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has 1233.3% lower power consumption.

Pro W6800X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon Pro W6800X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Radeon Pro W6800X is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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