Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800
AMD AMD Radeon RX 6800 Speed index 14/100 Last updated:

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 Benchmark and Specs

All technical data and various benchmarks of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 are listed on this page. The graphics card is based on the Navi 21 (RDNA 2) graphics chip, which is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nm. The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 can operate up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 become.
FP32
16.82TFLOPS
Boost Clock
2.19GHz
Memory
16GB GDDR6
TDP
250 W

Technical details

GPU

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 has 60 execution units with 3840 shaders. This gives the graphics card a theoretical FP32 computing power of 16.82 TFLOPS.

GPU Chip
Navi 21 (RDNA 2)
Streaming Multiprocessors
60
Shader
3840
Render Output Units
96
Texture Units
240
Raytracing Cores
60

Memory

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 is equipped with 16 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR6. The memory clock of the graphics card is 2.000 GHz and the speed is 16 Gbps.

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

Clock Speeds

The base frequency of this graphics card is 1.850 GHz and the manufacturer specifies the maximum turbo clock as 2.190 GHz. If supported (see below), the performance can be further increased by overclocking.

Base Clock
1.850 GHz+9 %
Boost Clock
2.190 GHz+4 %
Avg (Game) Clock
1.980 GHz+9 %
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

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

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

Cooler & Fans

Graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 are cooled by a Air cooling.

Fan-Type
Axial
Fan 1
2 x 100 mm
Fan 2
1 x 90 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB / Silent
Noise (Load)
37 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 monitors can be operated with the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800.

Max. Displays
4
HDCP
2.3
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4a

Featureset

With the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 it is possible to operate a screen with a resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels. Furthermore, the DirectX standard version 12_2 (Ultimate) is supported.

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

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists the video codecs that the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 can decode or encode in hardware in order to minimize the processor load, which leads to lower power consumption.

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

Dimensions

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in a case. It is 310 mm long, 134 mm high and 55 mm wide.

Length
310 mm
Height
134 mm
Width
55 mm
Width (Slots)
3 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 was released in Q4/2020 at a price of 739 $. The graphics card manufactured in 7 nm is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes.

GPU Interface
PCIe 4.0 x 16
Release date
Q4/2020
Launch Price
739 $
Structure size
7 nm
Part-no
11305-01-20G
Documents
data sheet
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800
1.850 GHz · 16 GB · 250 W TDP
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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 Rank 1,614 / 5,633

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    7,825
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    7,756

Port Royal (Raytracing) Rank 2,102 / 4,176

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    8,025
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    7,954

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing) Rank 2,165 / 3,536

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    2,990
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    2,963

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) Rank 1,201 / 3,187

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    53 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    51 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 1,545 / 3,190

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    61 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    60 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 1,502 / 3,222

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    90 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    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) Rank 1,219 / 2,190

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    31 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 1,233 / 2,709

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    62 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    60 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 1,314 / 2,843

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    108 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    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) Rank 1,128 / 4,595

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    95 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    91 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 836 / 4,594

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    185 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    178 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 639 / 4,601

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    203 fps (avg)
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    194 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 Rank 1,539 / 5,255

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    131,444
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    129,992

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 1,341 / 5,233

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    133,644
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    100,719

Geekbench 6 - Metal Rank 102 / 750

  1. Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    172,098
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    137,332

MonkeyBench 2026.3 · browser GPU test

Average of 15 public MonkeyBench results (WebGPU) for the AMD Radeon RX 6800.

426GPU points (Ø)
Rank 52 / 507 · in the MonkeyBench GPU ranking

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