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Radeon RX 6800S vs Radeon 780M

Radeon RX 6800S
VS
Radeon 780M
AMD Radeon RX 6800S
Navi 23
AMD Radeon 780M
Phoenix

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon RX 6800S 8 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year newer Radeon 780M that utilizes 12 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 780M over RX 6800S
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800S
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.9x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 3.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 16 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • 88% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.1 vs 4.3 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.4x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (79K vs 32K)
  • Has 2.7x more shading units (2048 vs 768)
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6800S
vs
Radeon 780M

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
124
65
54
32
52
26
22
11
The Witcher 3
108
86
58
29
26
26
13
-
Counter-Strike 2
171
118
83
45
44
31
21
9
Far Cry 6
95
80
59
34
39
29
21
10
Hogwarts Legacy
63
53
37
19
22
15
11
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
84
76
52
31
34
29
19
12
Ghost of Tsushima
69
54
37
18
21
15
10
-
Cyberpunk 2077
62
56
32
13
19
20
10
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
110
96
66
33
36
31
20
9
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 98 33
1080p Ultra 76 25
1440p Ultra 53 16
4K Ultra 28 -
Margin of Error Medium 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 6800S +194%
7814
Radeon 780M
2661
Time Spy 8722 2787
Solar Bay 33935 11525
Port Royal 4294 1579
Fire Strike 26149 7885
Wild Life Extreme 16089 5305
Night Raid 90630 33367
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6800S +142%
79191
Radeon 780M
32713
Background Blur 191.3 img/sec 86.4 img/sec
Face Detection 103.9 img/sec 35.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.67 Gpixels/sec 1.03 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.27 Gpixels/sec 1.41 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.88 Gpixels/sec 0.41 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 278.7 Gpixels/sec 132.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11307.3 FPS 4470.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6800S +130%
15583
Radeon 780M
6762
G2D Mark 719 885
DirectX 11 136 FPS 65 FPS
DirectX 12 65 FPS 30 FPS
GPU Compute 5991 Ops/s 3577 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 223 & 12072 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6800S +284%
1008.4
Radeon 780M
262.58
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 31 & 179 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
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Radeon 780M
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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 6800S +64%
14914
Radeon 780M
9091
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6800S +21%
16318
Radeon 780M
13510
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6800S +71%
11595
Radeon 780M
6786
Image Classification (SP) 6441 3860
Image Segmentation (HP) 7535 5435
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17611 10580
Face Detection (HP) 21290 12855
Pose Estimation (Q) 69498 34716
Text Classification (SP) 2231 2578
Machine Translation (HP) 1967 3897
Object Detection (SP) 5939 3078
Depth Estimation (Q) 29299 14989
Style Transfer (SP) 155682 78608
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800S and Radeon 780M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Integrated
Released January 4, 2022 January 4, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Generic
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Navi 23 Phoenix
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 780M - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores)
Successor - - Radeon 8050S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS or above - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or above
Used in CPUs - - AMD Ryzen 7 H 255
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
- and 6 more
Laptop GPU ranking (59th and 97th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1800 MHz 800 MHz
Boost Clock 1975 MHz 2700-2800 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 12
Ray-tracing Cores 32 12
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 126 GPixel/s 86-90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 253 GTexel/s 130-134 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6800S +88%
8.1 TFLOPS
Radeon 780M
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 100 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 178 mm²
Transistor Count 11.06 billion 25.4 billion
Transistor Density 46.67 MTr/mm² 142.7 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 System Shared
Memory Size 8 GB -
Memory Clock 2000 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps -
Bus 128-bit -
ECC No -
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6800S
256 GB/s
Radeon 780M
n/a

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 2.1

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