AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6850M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1245MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

5344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q +1316%

15.3 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2021

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1245 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

6144

40

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

119.5 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

239.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.30 TFLOPS

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.30 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

239.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

GA104

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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