The MSI Radeon RX 6800 is equipped with 60 execution and 3840 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 16.17 TFLOPS is achieved.
- GPU Chip
- Navi 21 (RDNA 2)
- Streaming Multiprocessors
- 60
- Shader
- 3840
- Render Output Units
- 96
- Texture Units
- 240
- Raytracing Cores
- 60
The MSI Radeon RX 6800 has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s is achieved. In total, 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.
- Memory Size
- 16 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR6
- Memory Clock
- 2.000 GHz
- Memory Speed
- 16.0 Gbps
- Memory bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- Memory Interface
- 256 bit
The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the MSI Radeon RX 6800 with 1.700 GHz (base clock) or with 2.105 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.
- Base Clock
- 1.700 GHz
- Boost Clock
- 2.105 GHz
- Avg (Game) Clock
- 1.815 GHz
- Overclocking
- Yes
The MSI Radeon RX 6800 has 2 x 8-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.
- TDP
- 250 W
- TDP (up)
- 285 W
- Tjunction max
- 100 °C
- PCIe-Power
- 2 x 8-Pin
The MSI Radeon RX 6800 is equipped with 3 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.
- Fan-Type
- Axial
- Fan 1
- 3 x 85 mm
- Cooler-Type
- Air cooling
- Noise (Idle)
- 0 dB / Silent
- Noise (Load)
- 35 dB
Up to 4 screens can be connected to the MSI Radeon RX 6800, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.3 version.
- Max. Displays
- 4
- HDCP
- 2.3
- HDMI
- 1x HDMI 2.1
- DisplayPort
- 2x DP 1.4a
- USB-C
- 1
The MSI Radeon RX 6800 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_2 (Ultimate).
- Max. resolution
- 7680x4320
- DirectX
- 12_2 (Ultimate)
- Raytracing
- Yes
- DLSS / FSR
- Yes
- LED
- Non addressable LED
Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the MSI Radeon RX 6800 in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.
- h264
- Decode / Encode
- h265 / HEVC
- Decode / Encode
- VP8
- Decode / Encode
- VP9
- Decode / Encode
- AV1
- Decode
The dimensions of the MSI Radeon RX 6800 are 267 mm in length, 120 mm in height and 40 mm in width. Thus 2 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.
- Length
- 267 mm
- Height
- 120 mm
- Width
- 40 mm
- Width (Slots)
- 2 PCIe-Slots
- Weight
- 1395 g
- SFF-Ready
- No
The MSI Radeon RX 6800 is manufactured in a structure width of 7 nm and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q1/2021.
- GPU Interface
- PCIe 4.0 x 16
- Release date
- Q1/2021
- Launch Price
- 579 $ (Reference)
- Structure size
- 7 nm
