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Review

Radeon RX 6800S
Radeon RX 9070
Gaming
27
66
Workstation
32
56
AI/ML
26
63
Energy Efficiency
61
49
Quick Comparison Final Score
34
62
❖

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between Radeon RX 6800S and Radeon RX 9070

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800S

  • + RDNA 2.0 architecture
  • + Navi 23 codename
  • + 8GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 4.0 x8 interface

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070

  • + RDNA 4.0 architecture
  • + Navi 48 codename
  • + 16GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 5.0 x16 interface

Pros & Cons

Radeon RX 6800S
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No DLSS upscaling support

"A entry-level AMD Radeon RX 6800S graphics card with modest workstation performance (32/100). Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Radeon RX 9070
  • Solid gaming performance
  • Large 16GB memory pool
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • No DLSS upscaling support

"A mid-range AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics card with capable gaming performance (66/100). Suited for 1080p gaming and everyday tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
65
156
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070

The Witcher 3

1080p High
86
217
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
118
218
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070

Far Cry 6

1080p High
80
164
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
53
123
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070

Call of Duty

1080p High
76
206
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
54
123
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
56
149
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070

Tomb Raider

1080p High
96
240
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070
FPS Table
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 65 — — — 156 — — —
The Witcher 3 86 — — — 217 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 118 — — — 218 — — —
Far Cry 6 80 — — — 164 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 53 — — — 123 — — —
Call of Duty 76 — — — 206 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 54 — — — 123 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 56 — — — 149 — — —
Tomb Raider 96 — — — 240 — — —
Average FPS 76——— 177———
Average FPS by Resolution
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070
1080p High 98 213
1080p Ultra 76 177
1440p Ultra 53 139
4K Ultra 28 82
Margin of Error Medium Low

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon RX 6800S
7812
Radeon RX 9070 +192%
22783
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070
Time Spy 8724 26826
Solar Bay 33935 105512
Port Royal 4290 16089
Fire Strike 26163 60226
Wild Life Extreme 16089 48184
Night Raid 90630 176216
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
Radeon RX 6800S
15765
Radeon RX 9070 +61%
25389
Radeon RX 6800S Radeon RX 9070
G2D Mark 729 1265
DirectX 11 138 FPS 280 FPS
DirectX 12 65 FPS 74 FPS
GPU Compute 6043 Ops/s 14791 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
Radeon RX 6800S
1008.4
Radeon RX 9070 +173%
2749.68

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification Radeon RX 6800S ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
GB6 Compute Score 79191 149949
Background Blur 191.3 img/sec 377.5 img/sec
Face Detection 103.9 img/sec 221.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.67 Gpixels/sec 6.4 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 8.99 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.27 Gpixels/sec 8.52 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.88 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 278.7 Gpixels/sec 606 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11307.3 FPS 8521.2 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification Radeon RX 6800S ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 14914 37056
GB6 ML Half Precision 16318 54866
GB6 ML Quantized 11595 29946
Image Classification (SP) 6441 15375
Image Segmentation (HP) 7535 37834
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17611 43910
Face Detection (HP) 21290 67858
Pose Estimation (Q) 69498 172939
Text Classification (SP) 2231 4469
Machine Translation (HP) 1967 8499
Object Detection (SP) 5939 15393
Depth Estimation (Q) 29299 66890
Style Transfer (SP) 155682 365633
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
General
Specification Radeon RX 6800S ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 4, 2022 January 7, 2025
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 4.0
GPU Codename Navi 23 Navi 48
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 9 6900HSor above -Intel Core Ultra 5 245Kor above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification Radeon RX 6800S ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Base Clock 1800 MHz 1330 MHz
Boost Clock 1975 MHz 2520 MHz
Shading Units 2048 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 224
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 128
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 56
Tensor Cores 112
Ray-tracing Cores 32 56
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 4 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification Radeon RX 6800S ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 126 GPixel/s 323 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 253 GTexel/s 564 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 8.1 TFLOPS 36.1 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification Radeon RX 6800S ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 100 W 220 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 356.5 mm²
Transistor Count 11.06 billion 53.9 billion
Transistor Density 46.67 MTr/mm² 151.19 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification Radeon RX 6800S ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
API
Specification Radeon RX 6800S ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.2
CUDA No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 2.1a

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