Radeon RX 6900 XT and Radeon 9800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 6900 XT vs Radeon 9800 XT
Radeon RX 6900 XT
27642
Radeon 9800 XT
58
Radeon RX 6900 XT
Radeon 9800 XT
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
Navi 21
R360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2020
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x Molex
Boost clock speed
2250 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1825 MHz
412 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
26,800 million
117 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
5120
-
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
720.0
3.296
Memory type
GDDR6
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
16000 MHz
730 MHz
Memory bandwidth
512.0 GB/s
23.36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
9.0
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
6.5
-
Vulkan
1.2
N/A