AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

  • Around 50% higher core clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1545 MHz
  • Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 2581 MHz vs 1890 MHz
  • 2.3x more texture fill rate: 413.0 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
Core clock speed 2321 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Boost clock speed 2581 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s vs 181.4 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2560
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 7 nm
  • Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 165 Watt
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 730 vs 631
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17659 vs 17512
  • Around 11% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 88873 vs 80272
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Pipelines 3072 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 165 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 730 vs 631
PassMark - G3D Mark 17659 vs 17512
Geekbench - OpenCL 88873 vs 80272

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
631
730
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17512
17659
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
80272
88873
Name AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 631 730
PassMark - G3D Mark 17512 17659
Geekbench - OpenCL 80272 88873
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 10441

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Code name Navi 22 AD107
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 2023
Place in performance rating 86 88

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2581 MHz 1890 MHz
Compute units 40
Core clock speed 2321 MHz 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 825.9 GFLOPS (1:16) 181.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.43 TFLOPS (2:1) 11.61 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.21 TFLOPS 11.61 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2560 3072
Pixel fill rate 165.2 GPixel/s 60.48 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 413.0 GTexel/s 181.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 115 Watt
Transistor count 17200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 384.0 GB/s 256.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6