Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6800 XT Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 5060 Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (2497MHz vs 2250MHz)
Lower TDP (145W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+8%
20740
GeForce RTX 5060
19180
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+40%
19329
GeForce RTX 5060
13735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+44%
9315
GeForce RTX 5060
6452
3DMark Speed Way
Radeon RX 6800 XT
+4%
3653
GeForce RTX 5060
3494
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
May 2025
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1825 MHz
Base Clock
2280 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
72
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
4608
Shading Units
3840
288
TMUs
120
128
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
72
RT Cores
30
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
288.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
648.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
41.47 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
20.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
1296 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
145W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
GB206
Navi 21 XT
(215-121000177)
(215-121000177)
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
5 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
12.0
6.5
Shader Model
6.8