NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6850M XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages
2560 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 165W)
AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 100% (2581MHz vs 1290MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q
13.21 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6850M XT
13.21 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 30 Mobile
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
780 MHz
Base Clock
2321 MHz
1290 MHz
Boost Clock
2581 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
2560
160
TMUs
160
80
ROPs
64
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
4 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
L3 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
103.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
165.2 GPixel/s
206.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.0 GTexel/s
13.21 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.43 TFLOPS
13.21 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.21 TFLOPS
206.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
825.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
165W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Navi 22
GA104-770-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 22 XTM
Ampere
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
7 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
17.2 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
335 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.5
