The AMD Radeon RX 6800 is a powerful graphics card designed for high-end gaming. It was released on October 28th, 2020 and is built on a 7 nm process. The card is based on the Navi 21 graphics processor and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, ensuring compatibility with modern games. It also offers features like hardware-raytracing and variable-rate shading. The Navi 21 GPU is a large chip with a die area of 520 mm² and 26,800 million transistors. To achieve the desired shader count, AMD disabled some shading units on the Radeon RX 6800 compared to the fully unlocked Radeon RX 6950 XT. The card has 3840 shading units, 240 texture mapping units, 96 ROPs, and 60 raytracing acceleration cores. It comes with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory connected through a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU operates at a base frequency of 1700 MHz, which can be boosted up to 2105 MHz, while the memory runs at 2000 MHz.
In terms of power requirements, the Radeon RX 6800 uses two 8-pin power connectors and has a maximum power draw of 250 W. For display connectivity, it offers one HDMI 2.1 port, two DisplayPort 1.4a ports, and one USB Type-C port. The card is connected to the system using a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 interface.
