Radeon VII and Radeon Pro W6800X - video card comparison

Radeon VII

Radeon Pro W6800X

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega 20

Navi 21

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

February 2019

August 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Apple MPX

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Apple MPX

Boost clock speed

1750 MHz

2087 MHz

Core clock speed

1400 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

13,230 million

26,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

3840

Power consumption (TDP)

295 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

420.0

500.9

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

32 GB

Memory bus width

4096 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

16 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1024 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 4x Thunderbolt

HDMI

+

+

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3