AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6850M XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (2581MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (148W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6850M XT +236%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

3.92 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX 6850M XT +380%

1510

GeForce GTX 980MX

314

Radeon RX 6850M XT

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2321 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

2581 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

1664

160

TMUs

104

64

ROPs

64

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

96 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

165.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

413.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

26.43 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

825.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

GM204

Navi 22 XTM

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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