Radeon RX 6900 XT and FirePro V9800 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 6900 XT

FirePro V9800

Architecture

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Navi 21

Cypress

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

December 2020

September 2010

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2250 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1825 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

2,720.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

26,800 million

2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

1600

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

720.0

68.00

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

16000 MHz

4600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

512.0 GB/s

147.2 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

6.5

5.0

Vulkan

1.2

N/A