NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6850M XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 149% (2581MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6850M XT +397%

13.21 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970M

208

Radeon RX 6850M XT +634%

1528

GeForce GTX 970M

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Radeon RX 6850M XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.43 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.21 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

825.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 22

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 22 XTM

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

17.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

335 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

165W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5

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