Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6800 (RDNA 2) and has 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI (Blackwell) and has 16 GB GDDR7 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 896 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 has the Navi 21 graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 2 architecture.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition is based on the graphics chip GB203-200-A1, which comes from the Blackwell architecture.
Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI
Navi 21 GPU Chip GB203-200-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Blackwell
60 Streaming Multiprocessors 70
3840 Shader 8960
96 Render Output Units 96
240 Texture Units 280
60 Raytracing Cores 70

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 clocks at 2.000 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 16.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition is 28.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR7
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 28.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 896 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.800 GHz Base Clock 2.295 GHz
2.105 GHz Boost Clock 2.452 GHz
1.82 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 250 W.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition has 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 300 W.

250 W TDP 300 W
285 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 is equipped with a total of 3 Axial main fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 85 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
37 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Radeon RX 6800.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 5 x 16 Lanes interface.

267 mm Length 304 mm
120 mm Height 137 mm
40 mm Width 48 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 16
No SFF-Ready Yes

Additional data

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 has been manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers since Q4/2020.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI Founders Edition came on the market in Q1/2025 and will have a structure width of 5 nanometers manufactured.

21305-01-20G Part-no --
Q4/2020 Release date Q1/2025
579 $ (Reference) Launch Price 749 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 5 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

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (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)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
51 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
59 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
87 fps (avg)

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)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
60 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
104 fps (avg)

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)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
91 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
178 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
195 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

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
126364

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
128479

Geekbench 6 - Metal

Sapphire Radeon RX 6800 Sapphire Radeon RX 6800
16 GB GDDR6
165447

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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