AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1481 MHz
  • Around 63% higher boost clock speed: 2581 MHz vs 1582 MHz
  • 1165.3x more texture fill rate: 413.0 GTexel/s vs 354.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 9% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 11 GB
  • Around 22% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82468 vs 67670
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 10 March 2017
Core clock speed 2321 MHz vs 1481 MHz
Boost clock speed 2581 MHz vs 1582 MHz
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s vs 354.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 11 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 82468 vs 67670

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

  • Around 40% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2560
  • 5.5x more memory clock speed: 11008 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
  • Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 937 vs 641
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18598 vs 17406
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 3584 vs 2560
Memory clock speed 11008 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 937 vs 641
PassMark - G3D Mark 18598 vs 17406

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
641
937
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17406
18598
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
82468
67670
Name AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)
PassMark - G2D Mark 641 937
PassMark - G3D Mark 17406 18598
Geekbench - OpenCL 82468 67670
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 205.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2406.499
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1002.573
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2231

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Desktop)

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Pascal
Code name Navi 22 GP102
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 10 March 2017
Place in performance rating 89 219
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Price now $826.98
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 27.48

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2581 MHz 1582 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 2321 MHz 1481 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 825.9 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.43 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.21 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 3584
Pixel fill rate 165.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s 354.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 17200 million 11,800 million
Floating-point performance 11,340 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 91 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 11 GB
Memory bandwidth 384.0 GB/s 484.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 352 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 11008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
HDMI 2.0b
PCIe 3.0
SLI
Virtual Reality