GPU Comparison

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 6800S

CORE STATE Navi 23

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2100 MHz

TDP 100 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

A2

CORE STATE GA107

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1770 MHz

TDP 60 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2021

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,689

N/A

geekbench_metal

85,256

N/A

geekbench_opencl

73,202

35,357

geekbench_vulkan

81,272

34,023

passmark_directx_10

N/A

passmark_directx_11

139

N/A

passmark_directx_12

N/A

passmark_directx_9

200

N/A

passmark_g2d

732

N/A

passmark_g3d

15,908

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

6,144

N/A

Analysis: AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs NVIDIA A2

Visual performance comparisons between AMD RX 6800 graphics card and the NVIDIA A2 card from NVIDIA indicate a obvious winner. AMD RX 6800 graphics card offers substantially stronger performance in modern AAA releases. The memory edge and engineering enhancements result into clearly improved gaming quality. Benchmark figures supports this conclusion. Enthusiasts wanting premium performance should factor this in.

For hardware ray tracing, AMD RX 6800 graphics card pulls considerably ahead of the NVIDIA A2 card from NVIDIA. The RT hardware execute demanding shadow rendering significantly more effectively. Enthusiasts looking for next-gen graphics should strongly favor AMD RX 6800 graphics card. This RT advantage is substantial. Modern games more and more use RT technology.

the NVIDIA A2 card from NVIDIA isn't ignored completely, yet the gaming difference relative to AMD RX 6800 graphics card is challenging to ignore. In price-aware consumers, the NVIDIA A2 card from NVIDIA can nonetheless be a choice if its reduced asking price accounts for the lesser power. However, when raw rendering capability, AMD RX 6800 graphics card is the clear winner. This conclusion is obvious. Capability enthusiasts would gravitate toward AMD RX 6800 graphics card.

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 6800S

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,280 -37.5%

Shaders

2,048

1,280 -37.5%

TMUs

128

40 -68.8%

ROPs

32 -50.0%

Compute Units

—

SM Count

—

Clocks

Base Clock

1800 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

2100 MHz

1770 MHz

Game Clock

1975 MHz

—

Memory Clock

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

1563 MHz 12.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

16,384 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR6

Memory Bus

128 bit

Bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

200.1 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

L3 Cache

32 MB

—

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

134.4 GPixel/s

56.64 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

8.602 TFLOPS

4.531 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

537.6 GFLOPS (1:16)

70.80 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

17.20 TFLOPS (2:1)

4.531 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

10 -68.8%

Tensor Cores

—

Power

TDP

100 W

60 W

TDP (W)

100

60 -40.0%

Suggested PSU

—

250 W

Power Connectors

None

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Navi 23

GA107

Generation

Navi Mobile (RX 6000M)

Workstation Ampere (Ax000)

Process Size

7 nm

8 nm

Transistors

11,060 million

8,700 million

Die Size

237 mm²

200 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

46.7M / mm²

43.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Single-slot

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

No outputs

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Production

End-of-life

Predecessor

Polaris Mobile

Quadro Turing

Successor

—

Workstation Ada

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