Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800
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Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 Benchmark and Specs

Here we show you benchmarks and technical data for the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800. The graphics card is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6800 (RDNA 2) and has 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s. The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 has 60 execution units with 3840 shaders.
FP32
16.67TFLOPS
Boost Clock
2.17GHz
Memory
16GB GDDR6
TDP
250 W

Technical details

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 has 3840 shaders and 60 execution units. The graphics card thus achieves a theoretical FP32 computing power of 16.67 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 Pulse Radeon RX 6800 can use 16 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR6. The graphics card thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s on a 256 bit wide memory interface.

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 clock frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 is 1.800 GHz. A high clock frequency (even in turbo mode) can greatly increase the speed of a graphics card.

Base Clock
1.800 GHz+6 %
Boost Clock
2.170 GHz+3 %
Avg (Game) Clock
1.950 GHz+7 %
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 is 250 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

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

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 has a total of 3 Axial fans to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

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

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800.

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

Featureset

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 has a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels. The graphics card supports the DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate) standard.

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

Supported Video Codecs

The video codecs accelerated in hardware by the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 reduce the processor load and ensure lower energy consumption.

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

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 is 303 mm long and 127 mm high. With a width of 54 mm, the graphics card requires 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

Length
303 mm
Height
127 mm
Width
54 mm
Width (Slots)
3 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800 made in 7 nm was published in Q4/2020 for 679 $.

GPU Interface
PCIe 4.0 x 16
Release date
Q4/2020
Launch Price
679 $
Structure size
7 nm
Part-no
11305-02-20G
Documents
data sheet
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800
1.800 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 1,623 / 5,633

  1. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    7,790
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    7,756

Port Royal (Raytracing) Rank 2,111 / 4,176

  1. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    7,989
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    7,954

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing) Rank 2,179 / 3,536

  1. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    2,976
  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 Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse 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 Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse 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 Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse 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 Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse 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 Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse 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 1,329 / 2,843

  1. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    107 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 1,140 / 4,595

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

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 866 / 4,594

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

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 865 / 4,601

  1. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    201 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 1,587 / 5,255

  1. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    130,271
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    129,992

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 1,382 / 5,233

  1. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    132,452
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    100,719

Geekbench 6 - Metal Rank 111 / 750

  1. Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6800Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 680016 GB GDDR6
    170,563
  2. AMD Radeon RX 6800AMD Radeon RX 6800Average of gpu group
    137,332

MonkeyBench 2026.3 · browser GPU test

Average of 12 public MonkeyBench results (WebGPU) for the AMD Radeon RX 6800.

433GPU points (Ø)
Rank 52 / 502 · in the MonkeyBench GPU ranking

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