MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1
vs
Sapphire Radeon VII


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 and the Sapphire Radeon VII, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6800 and has 3840 texture shaders and 60 execution units.

Sapphire Radeon VII is based on AMD Radeon VII, which has 3840 shaders and 60 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 GPU Sapphire Radeon VII
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Based on AMD Radeon VII
Navi 21 GPU Chip Vega 20 XT
RDNA 2 Architecture GCN 5.1
60 Streaming Multiprocessors 60
3840 Shader 3840
96 Render Output Units 64
240 Texture Units 240
60 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The Sapphire Radeon VII can access 16 GB HBM2 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 1024 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type HBM2
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.000 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 2.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1024 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 4096 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 clocks in the base with up to 1.700 GHz. The base frequency of the Sapphire Radeon VII is 1.400 GHz.

1.700 GHz Base Clock 1.400 GHz
2.015 GHz Boost Clock 1.750 GHz
1.82 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 is 250 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 3 x 8-Pin connector.

The Sapphire Radeon VII has a TDP of 300 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

250 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 99 °C
3 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The Sapphire Radeon VII has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 3 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 32 dB
-- Noise (Load) 52 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1.

The Sapphire Radeon VII supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Sapphire Radeon VII is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
MSI Mystic Light LED Non addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 is 324 mm long, 142 mm high and 55 mm wide.

The Sapphire Radeon VII is 268 mm long, 120 mm high and 42 mm wide.

324 mm Length 268 mm
142 mm Height 120 mm
55 mm Width 42 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1564 g Weight 1280 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 was released in Q2/2023 at a price of 579 $ (Reference).

The Sapphire Radeon VII was introduced in Q1/2019 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no 21291-01-40G
Q2/2023 Release date Q1/2019
579 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1
16 GB GDDR6
87 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
65 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1
16 GB GDDR6
170 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
116 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1 MSI Radeon RX 6800 Gaming Trio Plus 16G V1
16 GB GDDR6
187 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
150 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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