PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT
vs
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT and the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and has 4608 texture shaders and 72 execution units.

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT is based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, which has 5120 shaders and 80 execution units.
PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Navi 21 XT GPU Chip Navi 21
RDNA 2 Architecture RDNA 2
72 Streaming Multiprocessors 80
4608 Shader 5120
128 Render Output Units 128
288 Texture Units 320
72 Raytracing Cores 80

Memory

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT can access 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT clocks in the base with up to 1.900 GHz. The base frequency of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT is 1.825 GHz.

1.900 GHz Base Clock 1.825 GHz
2.360 GHz Boost Clock 2.285 GHz
2.11 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 2.05 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is 300 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 3 x 8-Pin connector.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT has a TDP of 340 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

300 W TDP 340 W
345 W TDP (up) 390 W
100 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
3 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT has a total of 0 -- fans.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

-- Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
Water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
0 dB Noise (Load) 33 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 PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED 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 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is 266 mm long, 162 mm high and 42 mm wide.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT is 310 mm long, 134 mm high and 55 mm wide.

266 mm Length 310 mm
162 mm Height 134 mm
42 mm Width 55 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1300 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT was released in Q1/2021 at a price of 649 $ (Reference).

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT was introduced in Q4/2020 at a price of 999 $.

AXRX 6800XT 16GBD6-W2DHC/OC Part-no 11308-01-20G
Q1/2021 Release date Q4/2020
649 $ (Reference) Launch Price 999 $
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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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