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AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs RX 6700S

Radeon RX 6800S
VS
Radeon RX 6700S
AMD Radeon RX 6800S
Navi 23
AMD Radeon RX 6700S
Navi 23

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6800S with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the RX 6700S that utilizes 28 pipelines and 1792 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 RX 6700S over RX 6800S
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800S
  • Performs slightly better (up to 16%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 13% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 53 vs 47 FPS
  • 19% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.1 vs 6.8 TFLOPS)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6800S
vs
RX 6700S

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
124
65
54
32
113
60
47
30
The Witcher 3
108
86
58
29
93
76
50
27
Counter-Strike 2
171
118
83
45
154
106
74
38
Far Cry 6
95
80
59
34
87
75
55
28
Hogwarts Legacy
63
53
37
19
52
46
34
16
CoD: Modern Warfare III
84
76
52
31
75
66
45
29
Ghost of Tsushima
69
54
37
18
58
46
33
18
Cyberpunk 2077
62
56
32
13
56
50
28
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
110
96
66
33
98
85
57
27
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 98 87
1080p Ultra 76 68
1440p Ultra 53 47
4K Ultra 28 25
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 +16%
7814
RX 6700S
6737
Time Spy 8722 7811
Solar Bay 33935 29526
Port Royal 4294 3806
Fire Strike 26149 22441
Wild Life Extreme 16089 13952
Night Raid 90630 79014
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6800S +8%
79191
RX 6700S
73161
Background Blur 191.3 img/sec 170.5 img/sec
Face Detection 103.9 img/sec 102.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.67 Gpixels/sec 2.32 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 3.12 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.27 Gpixels/sec 2.82 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.88 Gpixels/sec 0.79 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 278.7 Gpixels/sec 312.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11307.3 FPS 10541.1 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 +4%
15583
RX 6700S
15009
G2D Mark 719 733
DirectX 11 136 FPS 133 FPS
DirectX 12 65 FPS 58 FPS
GPU Compute 5991 Ops/s 5877 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 223 & 503 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6800S +11%
1008.4
RX 6700S
909.9
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 31 & 74 samples
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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 +15%
14914
RX 6700S
12926
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6800S +5%
16318
RX 6700S
15549
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6800S +22%
11595
RX 6700S
9500
Image Classification (SP) 6441 5863
Image Segmentation (HP) 7535 6887
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17611 16463
Face Detection (HP) 21290 17257
Pose Estimation (Q) 69498 64202
Text Classification (SP) 2231 2123
Machine Translation (HP) 1967 3125
Object Detection (SP) 5939 4814
Depth Estimation (Q) 29299 24189
Style Transfer (SP) 155682 136875
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800S and RX 6700S

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 4, 2022 January 4, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 23 Navi 23
Rival Equivalent - Radeon 780M - GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
Successor - - Radeon RX 7700S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS or above - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS or above
Laptop GPU ranking (59th and 67th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1800 MHz 1700 MHz
Boost Clock 1975 MHz 1890 MHz
Shading Units 2048 1792
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 28
Ray-tracing Cores 32 28
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 121 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 253 GTexel/s 212 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6800S +19%
8.1 TFLOPS
RX 6700S
6.8 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 100 W 80 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 7 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 237 mm²
Transistor Count 11.06 billion 11.06 billion
Transistor Density 46.67 MTr/mm² 46.67 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6800S +14%
256 GB/s
RX 6700S
224 GB/s

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 1.4

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