GeForce RTX 4090 vs Radeon RX 6800

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to Radeon RX 6800 (45/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Radeon RX 6800
Radeon

Radeon RX 6800

45/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Efficiency 43.0 Poor WINNER 36.0 Poor
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 45.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Fire Strike 72432 44367
Night Raid 195813 142456
Port Royal 26127 8145
Solar Bay 187525 64715
Time Spy 36299 16227
Wild Life Extreme 85218 29767

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
CUDA 8.9 —
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
1080p High 255 157
1080p Ultra 217 129
1440p Ultra 177 96
4K Ultra 106 55
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 1461359763
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 26519313175
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 113986532
Far Cry 6 203179170104 14612910661
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 1751149566
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 110897043
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 106866836
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 17916812263
The Witcher 3 292268191101 17214810857

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 46083
Face Detection (HP) 78111 38124
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 11245
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 13617
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 27747
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 5228
Object Detection (SP) 21186 11986
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 119493
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 281860
Text Classification (SP) 4074 2425

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 298.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 6.68 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 186.2 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 4.75 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 18755.1 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 579 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD102 Navi 21
Launch price (MSRP) $1599 $579
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core i5 12600or above
Released September 20, 2022 October 28, 2020
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090 —
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent — -GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Base Clock 2235 MHz 1700 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2105 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 —
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 60
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 96
Shading Units 16384 3840
Tensor Cores 512 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 240

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Bus 384-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
DirectX 11 323 FPS 211 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 90 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 1002
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 10751 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Die Size 609 mm² 520 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 7 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 250 W
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 26 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 50 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 202 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 505 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 Radeon RX 6800
Date Benchmark —
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024 —

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