AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6800 16 GB with 3840 shaders against the 2 years and 7 months newer GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
64.8
(Average)
Value Index
41.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 over RX 6800
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800
  • Performs better (up to 36%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 39% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 96 vs 69 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 88% higher memory bandwidth: 512 vs 272 GB/s
  • Achieves 27% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (135K vs 106K)
  • Has 25% more shading units (3840 vs 3072)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Features 96 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
vs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
175
114
95
66
128
78
66
47
The Witcher 3
172
148
108
57
143
117
82
44
Counter-Strike 2
265
193
131
75
208
157
111
58
Far Cry 6
146
129
106
61
105
98
76
45
Hogwarts Legacy
106
86
68
36
78
65
47
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
146
135
97
63
98
90
64
43
Ghost of Tsushima
110
89
70
43
73
61
45
27
Cyberpunk 2077
113
98
65
32
82
75
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
179
168
122
63
128
119
85
46
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 157 116
1080p Ultra 129 96
1440p Ultra 96 69
4K Ultra 55 40
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6800 +36%
14538
10683
Time Spy 16227 10615
Solar Bay 64715 49340
Port Royal 8145 6054
Fire Strike 44367 28540
Wild Life Extreme 29767 20610
Night Raid 142456 121368
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6800 +27%
135060
106633
Background Blur 298.6 img/sec 186.9 img/sec
Face Detection 186.2 img/sec 112.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.75 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.68 Gpixels/sec 5.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.58 Gpixels/sec 4.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.16 Gpixels/sec 1.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 579 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 18755.1 FPS 14935.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
9629
RTX 4060 +10%
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6800 +13%
22059
19489
G2D Mark 1002 1036
DirectX 11 211 FPS 174 FPS
DirectX 12 90 FPS 76 FPS
GPU Compute 10751 Ops/s 9156 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]4876 & 27959 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1892.86
RTX 4060 +66%
3134.66
Sources: Blender [9], [10]739 & 2064 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6800
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)GeekBench105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6800 +41%
25097
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
27988
RTX 4060 +4%
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6800 +34%
19116
14234
Image Classification (SP) 11245 7696
Image Segmentation (HP) 13617 13706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27747 23289
Face Detection (HP) 38124 31126
Pose Estimation (Q) 119493 78361
Text Classification (SP) 2425 3315
Machine Translation (HP) 5228 3491
Object Detection (SP) 11986 9386
Depth Estimation (Q) 46083 36778
Style Transfer (SP) 281860 148120
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800 and GeForce RTX 4060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 28, 2020 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $579 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 21 AD107
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12600 or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 53rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 2105 MHz 2460 MHz
Shading Units 3840 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 24
Tensor Cores No 96
Ray-tracing Cores 60 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 202 GPixel/s 118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 505 GTexel/s 236 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6800 +7%
16.2 TFLOPS
15.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 250 W 115 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
Die Size 520 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 26 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 50 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps -
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6800 +88%
512 GB/s
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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