AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Around 66% higher core clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Around 52% higher boost clock speed: 2581 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Around 69% higher texture fill rate: 413.0 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB

Core clock speed	2321 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Boost clock speed	2581 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Texture fill rate	413.0 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 80% higher pipelines: 4608 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 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 758 vs 633
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19562 vs 17369
Around 34% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 109023 vs 81405

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Pipelines	4608 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 165 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	758 vs 633
PassMark - G3D Mark	19562 vs 17369
Geekbench - OpenCL	109023 vs 81405

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

633

758

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17369

19562

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

81405

109023

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	633	758
PassMark - G3D Mark	17369	19562
Geekbench - OpenCL	81405	109023
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2701
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		319.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		36.174
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		218.946
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1585.54

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ada Lovelace
Code name	Navi 22	AD106
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	2023
Place in performance rating	82	80
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2581 MHz	1695 MHz
Compute units	40
Core clock speed	2321 MHz	1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	825.9 GFLOPS (1:16)	244.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.43 TFLOPS (2:1)	15.62 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.21 TFLOPS	15.62 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	4608
Pixel fill rate	165.2 GPixel/s	81.36 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	413.0 GTexel/s	244.1 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