# Radeon RX 6000 series

The Radeon RX 6000 series is a series of graphics processing units developed by AMD, based on their RDNA 2 architecture. It was announced on October 28, 2020 and is the successor to the Radeon RX 5000 series. It consists of the entry-level RX 6400, mid-range RX 6500 XT, high-end RX 6600, RX 6600 XT, RX 6650 XT, RX 6700, RX 6700 XT, upper high-end RX 6750 XT, RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and enthusiast RX 6900 XT and RX 6950 XT for desktop computers; and the RX 6600M, RX 6700M, and RX 6800M for laptops. A sub-series for mobile, Radeon RX 6000S (consisting of RX 6600S, RX 6700S, and RX 6800S), was announced in CES 2022, targeting thin and light laptop designs.
The series is designed to compete with Nvidia's GeForce 30 series and Intel's Arc Alchemist series of cards. It is also the first generation of AMD GPUs that supports hardware accelerated real-time ray tracing, variable-rate shading and mesh shaders.

## History

On September 14, 2020, AMD hinted at the physical design of its RX 6000 series through a tweet shared on social messaging service Twitter. At the same time, it launched a virtual island inside the video game Fortnite containing a large-scale rendition of the RX 6000 hardware design, which players could freely explore using the game's Creative mode.
AMD officially unveiled the first three cards, the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT, in an event titled "Where Gaming Begins: Ep. 2" on October 28. In the event, they announced the RX 6800 XT as its flagship graphics processor, comparing its performance to that of Nvidia's RTX 3080 graphics card in 1440p and 4K resolution gaming. The 6800 XT was announced with a price tag of $649 USD, $50 lower than the RTX 3080's starting price of $699. They then introduced the RX 6800 as a competitor to Nvidia's previous-generation RTX 2080 Ti, priced at $579 compared to the 2080 Ti's $999; and the RX 6900 XT as its top card, claiming performance comparable with Nvidia's RTX 3090, but with lower power consumption and a launch price of $999, $500 cheaper than the 3090.
The Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT were released on November 18, 2020, and the RX 6900 XT was released on December 8, 2020.
On February 3, 2021, Gigabyte registered a range of RX 6700 XT graphics cards with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), with the filing indicating that all seven would ship with 12 GB of memory. On March 3, 2021, AMD officially announced the RX 6700 XT card, set to compete with Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti and 3070 cards. It launched on March 18, 2021.
On May 31, 2021, AMD announced the RX 6000M series of GPUs designed for laptops, including the RX 6600M, RX 6700M, and RX 6800M. They became available on June 1.
On June 23, Gigabyte registered six RX 6600 XT graphics cards with the EEC, indicating they would all have 8 GB of memory. This was just over a month after ASRock made similar filings for both the RX 6600 and 6600 XT, each with 8 GB of memory. On July 5, VideoCardz discovered that Taiwanese graphics card retailer PowerColor had already created product pages for the unannounced Radeon 6600 and 6600 XT GPUs.
On July 30, AMD announced the RX 6600 and 6600 XT GPUs, which were released on August 11, 2021. The RX 6600 XT is available for $379 USD MSRP.
In early 2022, AMD announced the low-end SKUs of the 6000 series; the RX 6400 and RX 6500 XT. These cards support only 4 PCIe lanes (albeit at PCIe 4.0 speeds), which can bottleneck performance on low-end machines lacking PCIe 4.0. They also lack GPU-accelerated video encoding features offered by the higher-end models.

## Availability issues

Much like Nvidia's competing GeForce 30 series, releases sold out almost immediately due to a combination of low stock and scalping bots.

### RX 6800 and 6800 XT

The RX 6800 and 6800 XT were launched on November 18, 2020, but due to low stock availability, sold out at most retailers that day. American retailer Micro Center restricted sales to in-store only, claiming that stock "will be extremely limited at launch". PCMag reported that both cards on Newegg sold out as early as 6:05 a.m. PST, and that they were unavailable on AMD's own store website by 6:11 a.m. Retailer B&H Photo Video refused to accept orders for the cards, stating in part, "We do not know and are therefore unable to provide a date or time for when these items will become available to purchase."
Scalpers were reportedly reselling the GPUs on eBay for around US$1000–1500, roughly double the launch price. Frustrated social media users tried to derail the listings by using bots to make fake bids on the scalped GPUs at absurd prices; in one instance, an auction for an RX 6800 XT saw bids as high as US$70,000.

### RX 6900 XT

The RX 6900 XT was launched on December 8, 2020, and similarly to the RX 6800 and 6800 XT, it sold out on the same day it was released. According to PCMag, it was listed as out of stock on Newegg by 6:02 a.m. PST, just two minutes after it went on sale. AMD's store website, struggling to keep up with the high number of visitors, kept displaying 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable errors to customers attempting to buy the graphics card; by 6:35 a.m., it was sold out.

## Radeon RX 6000 series features

Features of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series:
* RDNA 2 microarchitecture
* New TSMC N7 manufacturing process
* New TSMC N6 manufacturing process for RX 6500 and RX 6400
* DirectX 12 Ultimate support
* Added L3 cache (branded as Infinity Cache), up to 128 MB
* GDDR6 memory
* PCIe gen 4 interface
* Added ray-tracing support with RT cores
* AV1 video decoding support (except for Navi 24 products)
* Added Resizable BAR functionality
* DisplayPort 1.4a
* HDMI 2.1 support

## Products
### Desktop

| Model (Code name) | Release Date & Price | Architecture & fab | Transistors & die size | Core | Core | Fillrate | Fillrate | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Infinity Cache | Infinity Cache | Memory | Memory | Memory | Memory | TBP | Bus interface |
| Model (Code name) | Release Date & Price | Architecture & fab | Transistors & die size | Config | Clock (MHz) | Texture (GT/s) | Pixel (GP/s) | Half | Single | Double | Size | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Size | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type & width | Clock (MT/s) | TBP | Bus interface |
| Radeon RX 6300 (Navi 24) | Jan 4, 2022 OEM | RDNA 2 TSMC N6 | 5.4×10$^9$ 107 mm$^2$ | 768:48:32:12 12 CU | 1000 2040 | 48 97.9 | 32 65.3 | 3,072 6,267 | 1536 3,133 | 96 195.8 | 8 MB | 104 | 2 GB | 64 | GDDR6 32-bit | 16000 | 32 W | PCIe 4.0 ×4 |
| Radeon RX 6400 (Navi 24) | Jan 19, 2022 $159 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N6 | 5.4×10$^9$ 107 mm$^2$ | 768:48:32:12 12 CU | 1923 2321 | 92.3 111.4 | 61.5 74.3 | 5,907 7,130 | 2,954 3,565 | 184.6 222.8 | 16 MB | 208 | 4 GB | 128 | GDDR6 64-bit | 16000 | 53 W | PCIe 4.0 ×4 |
| Radeon RX 6500 XT (Navi 24) | Jan 19, 2022 $199 USD (4GB) $219 USD (8GB) | RDNA 2 TSMC N6 | 5.4×10$^9$ 107 mm$^2$ | 1024:64:32:16 16 CU | 2310 2815 | 147.8 180.2 | 73.9 90.1 | 9,462 11,530 | 4,731 5,765 | 295.6 360.3 | 16 MB | 232 | 4 GB 8 GB | 144 | GDDR6 64-bit | 18000 | 107 W 113 W | PCIe 4.0 ×4 |
| Radeon RX 6600 (Navi 23) | Oct 13, 2021 $329 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 1792:112:64:28 28 CU | 1626 2491 | 182.3 279 | 104.1 159.4 | 11,658 17,860 | 5,828 8,928 | 364.2 558 | 32 MB | 412.9 | 8 GB | 224 | GDDR6 128-bit | 14000 | 132 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6600 XT (Navi 23) | Aug 11, 2021 $379 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 2048:128:64:32 32 CU | 1968 2589 | 251.9 331.4 | 126 165.7 | 16,122 21,209 | 8,061 10,605 | 503.8 662.8 | 32 MB | 444.9 | 8 GB | 256 | GDDR6 128-bit | 16000 | 160 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6650 XT (Navi 23) | May 10, 2022 $399 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 2048:128:64:32 32 CU | 2055 2635 | 263 337.2 | 131.5 168.6 | 16,835 21,586 | 8,417 10,793 | 526.1 674.6 | 32 MB | 468.9 | 8 GB | 280 | GDDR6 128-bit | 17500 | 180 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6700 (Navi 22) | Jun 9, 2021 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 17.2×10$^9$ 335 mm$^2$ | 2304:144:64:36 36 CU | 1941 2450 | 279.5 352.8 | 124.2 156.8 | 17,888 22,579 | 8,944 11,290 | 559 705.6 | 80 MB | 1065 | 10 GB | 320 | GDDR6 160-bit | 16000 | 175 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB (Navi 22) | Oct 18, 2023 $269 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 17.2×10$^9$ 335 mm$^2$ | 2304:144:64:36 36 CU | 1941 2450 | 279.5 352.8 | 124.2 156.8 | 17,888 22,579 | 8,944 11,290 | 559 705.6 | 80 MB | 1065 | 10 GB | 320 | GDDR6 160-bit | 16000 | 170 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6700 XT (Navi 22) | Mar 18, 2021 $479 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 17.2×10$^9$ 335 mm$^2$ | 2560:160:64:40 40 CU | 2321 2581 | 371.4 413 | 148.5 165.2 | 23,767 26,429 | 11,884 13,215 | 742.7 825.9 | 96 MB | 1278 | 12 GB | 384 | GDDR6 192-bit | 16000 | 230 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12GB (Navi 22) | Oct 18, 2023 $289 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 17.2×10$^9$ 335 mm$^2$ | 2560:160:64:40 40 CU | 2321 2581 | 371.4 413 | 148.5 165.2 | 23,767 26,429 | 11,884 13,215 | 742.7 825.9 | 96 MB | 1278 | 12 GB | 384 | GDDR6 192-bit | 16000 | 230 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6750 XT (Navi 22) | May 10, 2022 $549 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 17.2×10$^9$ 335 mm$^2$ | 2560:160:64:40 40 CU | 2150 2600 | 344 416 | 137.6 166.4 | 22,016 26,624 | 11,008 13,312 | 688 832 | 96 MB | 1326 | 12 GB | 432 | GDDR6 192-bit | 18000 | 250 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6800 (Navi 21) | Nov 18, 2020 $579 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 26.8×10$^9$ 520 mm$^2$ | 3840:240:96:60 60 CU | 1700 2105 | 408 505.2 | 163.2 202.1 | 26,112 32,333 | 13,056 16,166 | 816 1,010 | 128 MB | 1432.6 | 16 GB | 512 | GDDR6 256-bit | 16000 | 250 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6800 XT (Navi 21) | Nov 18, 2020 $649 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 26.8×10$^9$ 520 mm$^2$ | 4608:288:128:72 72 CU | 1825 2250 | 525.6 648 | 233.6 288 | 33,638 41,472 | 16,819 20,736 | 1,051 1,296 | 128 MB | 1664.2 | 16 GB | 512 | GDDR6 256-bit | 16000 | 300 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6900 XT (Navi 21) | Dec 8, 2020 $999 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 26.8×10$^9$ 520 mm$^2$ | 5120:320:128:80 80 CU | 1825 2250 | 584 720 | 233.6 288 | 37,376 46,080 | 18,688 23,040 | 1,168 1,440 | 128 MB | 1664.2 | 16 GB | 512 | GDDR6 256-bit | 16000 | 300 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6950 XT (Navi 21) | May 10, 2022 $1,099 USD | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 26.8×10$^9$ 520 mm$^2$ | 5120:320:128:80 80 CU | 1890 2310 | 604.8 739.2 | 241.9 295.7 | 38,707 47,309 | 19,354 23,654 | 1,210 1,478 | 128 MB | 1793.5 | 16 GB | 576 | GDDR6 256-bit | 18000 | 335 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
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* 1 2 3 Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.
* ↑ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
* ↑ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
* ↑ Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
* ↑ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Ray accelerators and Compute units (CU)
* 1 2 3 Navi 24 lacks hardware video encoder.
* ↑ Actual release date unknown; RX 6300M release date is listed instead.

### Mobile

| Model (Code name) | Release date | Architecture & fab | Transistors & die size | Core | Core | Fillrate | Fillrate | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Processing power (GFLOPS) | Infinity Cache | Memory | Memory | Memory | Memory | HW Decoder | HW Decoder | HW Decoder | HW Encoder | HW Encoder | HW Encoder | TDP | Bus interface |
| Model (Code name) | Release date | Architecture & fab | Transistors & die size | Config | Clock (MHz) | Texture (GT/s) | Pixel (GP/s) | Half | Single | Double | Infinity Cache | Size | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type & width | Clock (MT/s) | AV1 | H265 | 4K H264 | AV1 | H265 | 4K H264 | TDP | Bus interface |
| Radeon RX 6300M (Navi 24) | Jan 4, 2022 | RDNA 2 TSMC N6 | 5.4×10$^9$ 107 mm$^2$ | 768:64:32:12 12 CU | 1512 | 97.76 | 48.38 | 6,270 | 3,130 | 195.6 | 8 MB | 2 GB | 64 | GDDR6 32-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 25 W | PCIe 4.0 ×4 |
| Radeon RX 6450M (Navi 24) | Jan 4, 2023 | RDNA 2 TSMC N6 | 5.4×10$^9$ 107 mm$^2$ | 768:64:32:12 12 CU | 2220 | 118.10 | 71.04 | 7,600 | 3,780 | 236.3 | 16 MB | 4 GB | 128 | GDDR6 64-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 50 W | PCIe 4.0 ×4 |
| Radeon RX 6550S (Navi 24) | Jan 4, 2023 | RDNA 2 TSMC N6 | 5.4×10$^9$ 107 mm$^2$ | 1024:64:32:16 16 CU | 2170 | 154.20 | 69.44 | 9,900 | 4,900 | 306.3 | 16 MB | 4 GB | 128 | GDDR6 64-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 50 W | PCIe 4.0 ×4 |
| Radeon RX 6500M (Navi 24) | Jan 4, 2022 | RDNA 2 TSMC N6 | 5.4×10$^9$ 107 mm$^2$ | 1024:64:32:16 16 CU | 2191 | 155.7 | 70.11 | 9,970 | 4,980 | 311.2 | 16 MB | 4 GB | 128 | GDDR6 64-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 50 W | PCIe 4.0 ×4 |
| Radeon RX 6550M (Navi 24) | Jan 4, 2023 | RDNA 2 TSMC N6 | 5.4×10$^9$ 107 mm$^2$ | 1024:64:32:16 16 CU | 2560 | 182.10 | 81.92 | 11,600 | 5,800 | 362.5 | 16 MB | 4 GB | 144 | GDDR6 64-bit | 18000 | | | | | | | 80 W | PCIe 4.0 ×4 |
| Radeon RX 6600S (Navi 23) | Jan 4, 2022 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 1792:128:64:28 28 CU | 1881 | 244.2 | 120.3 | 15,630 | 7,810 | 448.1 | 32 MB | 4 GB | 224 | GDDR6 128-bit | 14000 | | | | | | | 80 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6700S (Navi 23) | Jan 4, 2022 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 1792:128:64:28 28 CU | 1890 | 247.5 | 120.9 | 15,840 | 7,920 | 495.0 | 32 MB | 8 GB | 224 | GDDR6 128-bit | 14000 | | | | | | | 80 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6600M (Navi 23) | May 31, 2021 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 1792:128:64:28 28 CU | 2177 | 274.2 | 139.3 | 17,550 | 7,800 | 487.5 | 32 MB | 8 GB | 224 | GDDR6 128-bit | 14000 | | | | | | | 100 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6650M (Navi 23) | Jan 4, 2022 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 1792:128:64:28 28 CU | 2222 | 276.6 | 139.3 | 17,700 | 8,850 | 553.1 | 32 MB | 8 GB | 256 | GDDR6 128-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 120 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6800S (Navi 23) | Jan 4, 2022 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 2048:128:64:32 32 CU | 1975 | 288.0 | 134.4 | 18,430 | 9,220 | 576.5 | 32 MB | 8 GB | 256 | GDDR6 128-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 100 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6650M XT (Navi 23) | Jan 4, 2022 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 11.06×10$^9$ 237 mm$^2$ | 2048:128:64:32 32 CU | 2162 | 311.5 | 142.2 | 19,940 | 9,970 | 623.1 | 32 MB | 8 GB | 256 | GDDR6 128-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 120 W | PCIe 4.0 ×8 |
| Radeon RX 6700M (Navi 22) | May 31, 2021 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 17.2×10$^9$ 335 mm$^2$ | 2304:144:64:36 36 CU | 2300 | 331.4 | 147.2 | 21,209 | 10,605 | 662.1 | 80 MB | 10 GB | 320 | GDDR6 160-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 135 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6800M (Navi 22) | May 31, 2021 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 17.2×10$^9$ 335 mm$^2$ | 2560:160:64:40 40 CU | 2300 | 368.0 | 147.2 | 23,550 | 11,780 | 736.2 | 96 MB | 12 GB | 384 | GDDR6 192-bit | 16000 | | | | | | | 145+ W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
| Radeon RX 6850M XT (Navi 22) | Jan 4, 2022 | RDNA 2 TSMC N7 | 17.2×10$^9$ 335 mm$^2$ | 2560:160:64:40 40 CU | 2580 | 415.6 | 157.6 | 26,430 | 13,209 | 825.6 | 96 MB | 12 GB | 432 | GDDR6 192-bit | 18000 | | | | | | | 165 W | PCIe 4.0 ×16 |
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* 1 2 3 Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.
* ↑ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
* ↑ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
* ↑ Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
* ↑ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units : Ray accelerators and Compute units CU
* 1 2 Lacks hardware video encoder.