Radeon RX 6800 XT vs Sky 700

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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 data50.58
Power efficiencyno data14.84
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiNavi 21
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date27 March 2013 (11 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 cores17924608
Core clock speed900 MHz1825 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2250 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate100.8648.0
Floating-point processing power3.226 TFLOPS20.74 TFLOPS
ROPs32128
TMUs112288
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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth176 GB/s512.0 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 DisplayPort1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 March 2013 28 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 300 Watt

Sky 700 has 33.3% lower power consumption.

RX 6800 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Sky 700 and Radeon RX 6800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Sky 700 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 6800 XT is a desktop one.


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