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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black is a graphics card released on April 7, 2021. It has 4,608 shading units, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, 512.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 2.25 GHz and a 300 W board power rating.

8/10 key specs recorded · 45 facts

Depth: 25 recorded fields, 9 features

Specification data last verified July 27, 2026 against AMD.com Specifications. Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

AMD.com Specifications
Shading units
4,608cores
72 compute units
Memory
16 GB
GDDR6 · 256-bit
Boost clock
2.25 GHz
Board power
300 W
750 W PSU advised

Performance

Theoretical throughput

FP32 (single precision) 20.74 TFLOPS stated by AMD
FP16 (half precision) 41.47 TFLOPS stated by AMD
Pixel fill rate 288 GPixel/s stated by AMD
Texture fill rate 648 GTexel/s stated by AMD

AMD states a peak of FP32 (single precision) 20.74 TFLOPS, FP16 (half precision) 41.47 TFLOPS, Pixel fill rate 288 GPixel/s and Texture fill rate 648 GTexel/s for the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black.

Graphics processor

Architecture Not recorded
Codename Not recorded
Chip Not recorded
Process node Not recorded
Transistors 26,800 M
Die size Not recorded

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black contains 26,800 million transistors.

Shader configuration

Shading units 4,608
Compute units 72
Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded
Execution units Not recorded
Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded
Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded
Ray tracing cores 72
Tensor / AI cores Not recorded
XMX engines Not recorded
Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black has 4,608 shading units, 72 compute units and 72 ray tracing cores.

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics.

Clock speeds

Base clock Not recorded
Boost clock 2.25 GHz
Game clock 2.02 GHz
Memory clock Not recorded
Effective memory clock Not recorded

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black boosts to 2.25 GHz and has a game clock of 2.02 GHz.

Memory

Size 16 GB
Type GDDR6
Bus width 256-bit
Bandwidth 512.0 GB/s

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black is equipped with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, uses a 256-bit memory bus and delivers 512.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black has a board power rating of 300 W, a total board power of 300 W, a power supply of at least 750 W is recommended, power is supplied through 2x8-Pin, the card occupies 2.5-slot and it is 267 mm long.

Board power (TDP) 300 W
Total board power 300 W
Suggested PSU 750 W
Power connectors 2x8-Pin
Slot width 2.5-slot
Length 267 mm
Width Not recorded
Height Not recorded
Cooler Not recorded
Max temperature Not recorded
Bus interface Not recorded

Market

Launched April 7, 2021
Launch price Not recorded
Status Not recorded
Form factor Not recorded
Segment Desktop
Series Radeon RX 6000 Series

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black was released on April 7, 2021.

Features

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black has 2 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Rendering

  • Supported: Hardware ray tracing
    Dedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.
    Ray tracing units: 72
Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black supports DirectX 12 Ultimate and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black supports Hardware ray tracing under Rendering.

Display features

  • Supported: HDMI 4K output
    The vendor states the GPU can drive a 4K display over HDMI.
Not listed (7)

No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black supports AMD FreeSync, Stereoscopic 3D, 10-bit color output, VR ready, 8K display output, HDR output and 12-bit color output. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black supports HDMI 4K output under Display features.

Media engine

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and AV1.

Hardware video codec support of the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black
CodecEncodeDecode
H.264 (AVC)4K H.264: encode supported, decode supported SupportedSupported
HEVC (H.265) SupportedSupported
AV1 Not stated by the vendorSupported

supported   explicitly not supported   not stated by the vendor

Not listed: VP9. No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black supports this codec; that is silence, not a statement that it is unsupported.

Display outputs

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black offers outputs DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.1 VRR and FRL, USB Type-C, HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a.

Outputs DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.1 VRR and FRL, USB Type-C
HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort 1.4a

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black have?

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black has 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 512.0 GB/s.

How much power does the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black use and what power supply does it need?

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black has a board power rating of 300 W. Feex records a suggested power supply of at least 750 W. Power connectors: 2x8-Pin.

Does the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black support ray tracing?

Yes. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black has hardware ray tracing with 72 ray tracing cores.

When was the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black released?

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Midnight Black was released on April 7, 2021.