AMD Radeon RX 6800
Linux Format|February 2021
The RX 6800 not only delivers 1,440p performance, it demolishes the RTX 2080 Ti at 4K, too says Jacob Ridley.
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AMD Radeon RX 6800

SPECS

GPU: Navi 21

Process: TSMC 7nm

Die: 519 mm2

Transistors: 26.8bn

Stream units: 3,840

CUs: 60

Ray accels: 60

Clock: 1,815MHz

Boost clock: 2,105MHz

Memory: 16GB GDDR6, 256-bit

Memory speed: 16Gbps

Memory bandwidth: 512GB/s

TGP: 250W

Min PSU: 650W

Size: Two-slot

The AMD RX 6800 is the more affordable of the RDNA 2 (AMD’s next-generation GPU) graphics cards launched at the end of 2020, coming in beneath the AMD RX 6800 XT and the RX 6900 XT. There’s plenty to talk about with the RX 6800, and not the least bit how it stacks up versus the only competition it has right now: the Nvidia RTX 3070.

This card has a lot to offer in its own right, however. Perhaps the most immediately staggering of its specs is the 16GB of GDDR6 memory. And while the RX 6800 isn’t ‘Big Navi’, per se – that accolade goes to the 80 compute unit (CU) RX 6900 XT – it’s not exactly ‘Little Navi’, either. That title goes to the 20 CU Xbox Series S… or at least until some RDNA 2 makes its way into budget-friendly graphics cards and next-generation APUs.

The RX 6800 is fitted with a total of 60 CUs and 3,840 stream processors, which makes it a size above the RX 5000-series GPUs, including AMD’s previous high-end incumbent, the RX 5700 XT, with its 40 CUs.

AMD RDNA 2 architecture

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