Radeon RX 6800 XT
AMD graphics card · Radeon RX 6000 series · launched November 2020
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Launch price in today's dollars
The Radeon RX 6800 XT launched at $649 in 2020. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $829 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 28% rise over 6 years. At its launch price that is 387 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2020 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 2,515 (middle half of runs 2,397–2,599) across 366 community runs on Blender 4.x with the HIP backend. That is #36 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #3 of 14 in the Radeon RX 6000 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | AMD |
|---|---|
| Series | Radeon RX 6000 series |
| Launched | November 2020 |
| Launch price | $649 |
| Architecture | RDNA 2 |
| Chip | Radeon RX 6800 XT (Navi 21) |
| Memory | 16 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 512 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,825 MHz |
| FP32 compute | 20.74 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 300 W (TBP) |
| Transistors | 26.8 billion |
| Die size | 520 mm² |
| Process | 7 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Tier | 80-class |
The AMD 80-class over time
AMD graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radeon HD 6850 | 2010 | $179 | $272 | — |
| Radeon HD 6870 | 2010 | $239 | $363 | — |
| Radeon HD 7850 | 2012 | $250 | $360 | — |
| Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition | 2012 | $350 | $504 | — |
| Radeon HD 7870 XT | 2012 | $270 | $389 | — |
| Radeon R9 280X | 2013 | $299 | $425 | — |
| Radeon R9 280 | 2014 | $249 | $348 | — |
| Radeon R9 285 | 2014 | $249 | $348 | — |
| Radeon R9 380 | 2015 | $199 | $278 | — |
| Radeon R9 380X | 2015 | $229 | $320 | — |
| Radeon RX 480 | 2016 | $199 | $274 | — |
| Radeon RX 580 | 2017 | $199 | $269 | 358 |
| Radeon RX 580 2048SP | 2018 | — | — | — |
| Radeon RX 6800 | 2020 | $579 | $740 | 1,954 |
| Radeon RX 6800 XT | 2020 | $649 | $829 | 2,515 |
| Radeon RX 7800 XT | 2023 | $499 | $542 | 2,414 |
Compare with
- Radeon RX 6800 · 2020 · $579 · 1,954
- Radeon RX 6900 XT · 2020 · $999 · 2,664
- Radeon VII · 2019 · $699 · 1,318
- GeForce RTX 3060 Ti · 2020 · $399 · 2,780
- GeForce RTX 3070 · 2020 · $499 · 3,180
- GeForce RTX 3080 · 2020 · $699 · 4,516
- GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER · 2019 · $399 · 2,096
- GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER · 2019 · $499 · 2,251
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