AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 72% higher core clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1350 MHz
  • Around 67% higher boost clock speed: 2581 MHz vs 1545 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 250 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 20 September 2018
Core clock speed 2321 MHz vs 1350 MHz
Boost clock speed 2581 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

  • 7x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
  • Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 928 vs 641
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 21601 vs 17406
  • Around 64% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 134929 vs 82468
Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 928 vs 641
PassMark - G3D Mark 21601 vs 17406
Geekbench - OpenCL 134929 vs 82468

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
641
928
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17406
21601
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
82468
134929
Name AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark 641 928
PassMark - G3D Mark 17406 21601
Geekbench - OpenCL 82468 134929
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 394.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 5461.22
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 41.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 174.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1987.605
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 23659
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 23659
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3537

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Code name Navi 22 TU102
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 20 September 2018
Place in performance rating 89 91
Launch price (MSRP) $999
Price now $1,279.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 17.22

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2581 MHz 1545 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 2321 MHz 1350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 12 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
Pixel fill rate 165.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 17200 million 18,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Length 267 mm

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6