What CPU do I need for the Radeon RX 6800?

At 1440p, the Ryzen 5 2600 is the slowest processor that keeps the Radeon RX 6800 fully fed. At 1080p the card can run faster, so you need more: the Core i5-11400 or better.

Is the Radeon RX 6800 good for 1440p?

Yes, at sensible settings. It averages around 86 FPS at 1440p on high settings in our model, so 60 FPS and above is realistic, with upscaling helping in the heaviest games.

Is 16GB of VRAM enough on the Radeon RX 6800?

Yes. 16GB covers high textures at 4K in current games and leaves headroom for the next few years.

Is the Radeon RX 6800 faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti?

They are effectively tied, within 0% at 1440p in our model. Price, memory (16GB against 8GB) and features should decide it.

Radeon RX 6800 CPU pairing and bottleneck

Model frame rate limits of 114, 86 and 51 FPS at 1080p, 1440p and 4K, assuming the processor never gets in the way.

The Radeon RX 6800 is a mid-range graphics card in our database and built for 1440p, and comfortably past 100 FPS at 1080p in most games.

Its 16GB of memory leaves room for high textures at any resolution for years.

Its closest NVIDIA rival is the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which lands within a few percent of it at 1440p.

Estimated FPS in Popular Games

Game (settings)	1080p	1440p	4K
Cyberpunk 2077 (High, no ray tracing)	~90	~70	~40
Fortnite (High, DirectX 12)	~150	~110	~65
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (High)	~130	~100	~60
Counter-Strike 2 (High)	~275	~205	~120

Modelled estimates with a processor fast enough not to hold the card back, rounded to the nearest 5 FPS. Counter-Strike 2 is usually limited by the processor well before these figures. See the methodology for how they are produced.

The slowest CPU that will not hold it back

Resolution	Minimum processor	Estimated FPS
1080p	Core i5-11400	109
1440p	Ryzen 5 2600	82
4K	Ryzen 5 1600	51

Notice how the requirement drops as resolution rises. At 4K this card is working so much harder per frame that a far slower processor keeps up without trouble. The search starts at four cores and eight threads: below that a game stutters whatever the average frame rate says.

The processors it lands closest to

The 24 processors whose frame rate limit sits nearest this card's, fastest first. The tag after each number says which part hits its limit first. For any other combination, use the calculator.

Processor	1080p	1440p	4K
Core i5-11400	109 even	86 gpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 5 5500	108 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Core i5-10600K	107 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 7 3800X	107 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Core i7-8700K	105 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 7 3700X	105 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 5 3600X	103 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Core i5-9600K	100 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 5 3600	98 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 3 3300X	95 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Core i5-10400	94 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Core i5-10400F	94 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Core i7-7700K	94 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 5 3500X	93 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 7 2700X	92 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Core i3-10100F	91 cpu	86 gpu	51 gpu
Core i5-9400F	89 cpu	86 even	51 gpu
Ryzen 5 4600G	88 cpu	86 even	51 gpu
Core i5-8400	87 cpu	86 even	51 gpu
Ryzen 5 4500	86 cpu	86 even	51 gpu
Ryzen 3 3100	86 cpu	86 even	51 gpu
Ryzen 5 2600	82 cpu	82 even	51 gpu
Core i3-9100F	81 cpu	81 cpu	51 gpu
Ryzen 5 1600	73 cpu	73 cpu	51 gpu

Specifications

Manufacturer	AMD
Series	AMD RX 6000 Series (RDNA 2)
Video memory	16 GB
3DMark Time Spy (graphics)	15,704
PCI Express	4.0 ×16
Released	2020

Radeon RX 6800