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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs 6800 XT

Radeon RX 7800 XT
VS
Radeon RX 6800 XT
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Navi 32
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Navi 21

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7800 XT with 3840 shaders against the 2 years and 10 months older 6800 XT that utilizes 4608 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 (1)

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)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
66.2
(Good)
Value Index
46.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 6800 XT over RX 7800 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7800 XT
  • 80% higher maximum theoretical performance (37.3 vs 20.7 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Has 22% higher memory bandwidth: 624.1 vs 512 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 7800 XT
vs
RX 6800 XT

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
135
111
86
198
131
109
83
The Witcher 3
205
174
132
66
192
173
127
68
Counter-Strike 2
297
206
147
80
285
203
145
80
Far Cry 6
166
145
124
77
164
144
120
75
Hogwarts Legacy
122
101
79
45
120
96
76
42
CoD: Modern Warfare III
169
168
122
80
168
160
116
76
Ghost of Tsushima
124
105
85
54
125
104
84
53
Cyberpunk 2077
132
121
80
39
129
116
79
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
212
199
151
77
209
191
142
74
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 180 177
1080p Ultra 150 146
1440p Ultra 115 111
4K Ultra 67 65
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 7800 XT +3%
18111
RX 6800 XT
17589
Time Spy 20095 19379
Solar Bay 80667 78685
Port Royal 10917 9715
Fire Strike 50073 53014
Wild Life Extreme 37173 35635
Night Raid 160762 155323
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7800 XT +7%
148335
RX 6800 XT
138858
Background Blur 300.7 img/sec 335.7 img/sec
Face Detection 200.5 img/sec 221.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 5.77 Gpixels/sec 6.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.05 Gpixels/sec 8.96 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 7.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.25 Gpixels/sec 1.31 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 566.4 Gpixels/sec 263 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 20533.6 FPS 14755 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 7800 XT +25%
10740
RX 6800 XT
8578

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7800 XT
24471
RX 6800 XT +3%
25100
G2D Mark 1195 1046
DirectX 11 250 FPS 265 FPS
DirectX 12 96 FPS 100 FPS
GPU Compute 13617 Ops/s 13077 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 11293 & 8012 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7800 XT
2422.93
RX 6800 XT
2421.91
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 865 & 1120 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7800 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL156177
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light19225
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL152506
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light18724
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Radeon RX 6800 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-10 (XYQUE)Cinebench 202441600
Add View all (1)

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 7800 XT +3%
31216
RX 6800 XT
30220
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7800 XT +22%
37266
RX 6800 XT
30423
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7800 XT +9%
24564
RX 6800 XT
22583
Image Classification (SP) 13913 11942
Image Segmentation (HP) 18416 7603
Image Super Resolution (Q) 31387 30511
Face Detection (HP) 51780 42862
Pose Estimation (Q) 177217 160019
Text Classification (SP) 3655 4247
Machine Translation (HP) 6216 6279
Object Detection (SP) 15073 13910
Depth Estimation (Q) 57318 51794
Style Transfer (SP) 347420 324124
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7800 XT and 6800 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released September 6, 2023 November 18, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $649
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 32 Navi 21
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4070 - GeForce RTX 4070
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 XT - Radeon RX 9070 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (26th and 32nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1825 MHz
Boost Clock 2430 MHz 2250 MHz
Shading Units 3840 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 288
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 128
Ray-tracing Cores 60 72
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 233 GPixel/s 288 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 583 GTexel/s 648 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7800 XT +80%
37.3 TFLOPS
RX 6800 XT
20.7 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 263 W 300 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 7 nm
Die Size 346 mm² 520 mm²
Transistor Count 28 billion 26 billion
Transistor Density 80.92 MTr/mm² 50 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2438 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 19500 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7800 XT +22%
624.1 GB/s
RX 6800 XT
512 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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Randlemahn June 11, 2025 at 09:51 PM
7800xt Is 449 for me, gonna pair with 7700x, gonna keep this pc for at least 5 years.
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