Radeon RX 6900 XT and GA106 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 6900 XT

GA106

Architecture

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Navi 21

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2020

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Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

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Boost clock speed

2250 MHz

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Core clock speed

1825 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

26,800 million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

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Texture fill rate

720.0

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Memory type

GDDR6

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Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

16000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

512.0 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

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

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HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

NVENC

-

7th Gen

PureVideo HD

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VP11