AMD Radeon RX 6800 3DMark Suite Testing
Here we will run the AMD Radeon RX 6800 through graphics-related benchmarks.
Here are the 3DMark suite results. We will discuss them after the charts.
It is clear to see that a single AMD Radeon RX 6800 offers up an incredible performance. In many cases, it matches up to GTX 3070 GPUs. In others, it outperforms top-end previous-generation NVIDIA GPUs.
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Unigine Testing
The Unigine benchmarks are older and often do not perform well with current graphics cards.
Again, normally we would have our deep learning benchmarks, but whereas on the NVIDIA side, we had a single component that needed to be fixed for when we did our NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Review, the AMD side is different.
Next, we will look at the AMD Radeon RX 6800 power and temperature tests and then give our final words.
Will you include video encoding benchmarks? Given how popular Plex is in the home lab space, I would expect video encoding to be very relevant.
Wanna know the real dirty little secret woth your new card, William? ROCm does not support RDNA GPUs. The last AMD consumer cards that ROCm supported was the Vega 56/64 and it’s 7nM die shrink the VII.
You got a RX5000 or RX6000 series card or any version of APU, well you get to use OpenCL. Aren’t you lucky?
nVidia supported CUDA on every GPU since at least the 8800GT. I can’t imagine how AMD expects to get ROCm out of the upcoming national labs when the only modern card it will work on is the mi100. Ever try to buy an mi100 (or mi50)? It is basically possible to find an AMD reseller that will even condescend to speak to a small ISV.
*correction:
It is basically IMPOSSIBLE to find an AMD reseller that will even condescend to speak to a small ISV.
I find all these reviews and release news for both AMD and Nvidia card a joke at the moment, as an end user I can’t ever find any in stock no matter how deep my pockets!!
I’m not just talking about STH
Why have the new reviews suddenly decided to skip 3080 altogether ???
Hi Ryuk – we still have not been able to grab one for testing.
Pure junk selling, USA warranty evading, AMD still owes me a video board since I did not even get a 1/2 year of performance from the 3 very poorly designed and QA, Vega Frontier Editions.
AMD wanting all the selfish benefits of consumer sales, but none of the mature responsibilities.
The replacement warranty boards from AMD all junk. The first not lasting more than 2 days without crashing (BSD), the second, having waited ~1 mth, just 1 day then crashing. I having the impression, no one watching AMD, hey simply return “defective boards” as replacements, then wash their foul hands, not honoring anything, their word to then not respecting customer.
Worst, this company then sought to abuse USA Consumer Protection Laws by expecting their customers in the USA to send the defective product OUT OF COUNTRY, having no USA depot.
Park McGraw above ^^ had a faulty system (likely PSU or motherboard) that was making graphics cards either not work or actually break/fail, and then decided to blame AMD for it… ♂️
You didn’t get 3x faulty graphics cards in a row, you freaking imbecile… Basic silicon engineering science says that getting 3x GPU duds in a row is practically an impossibility (unless the product itself had a fundamental device killing flaw… of which Vega 10 did not). Aka, it was YOUR SYSTEM that was killing the cards!
And to emerth, I wouldn’t expect ROCm to EVER come to RDNA personally. API translation seriously isn’t easy, so keeping things limited to just two instruction sets (modern CUDA to GCN [+ CDNA which uses the GCN ISA & is basically just GCN w/ the “graphics” cut out]) likely cuts down the work & difficulty DRAMATICALLY!
Not to mention that even IF RDNA DID support ROCm, performance vs Nvidia would still be total crap because of the stark lack of raw FP compute! (AMD prioritized pixel pushing DRAMATICALLY over raw compute w/ RDNA 1 & 2 to get competitive gaming performance & perf/W, with only RDNA 3 starting to eveeeeer so slightly reverse course on that front).
AMD just doesn’t give a crap, whatsoever, about the hobbyist AI/machine learning market. Nvidia’s just got way, WAAAAAY too much dominance there for it to be worth AMD spending basically ANY time & effort to try and assault it. Especially when CDNA is absolutely beating the everliving SH!T out of Nvidia in the HPC & supercomputer market!