AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs NVIDIA Quadro GP100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT and NVIDIA Quadro GP100 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).

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

NVIDIA Quadro GP100

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1304 MHz
Around 79% higher boost clock speed: 2581 MHz vs 1442 MHz
1279.4x more texture fill rate: 413.0 GTexel/s vs 322.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
Around 42% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 235 Watt
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1430 MHz
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17232 vs 16374

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 1 October 2016
Core clock speed	2321 MHz vs 1304 MHz
Boost clock speed	2581 MHz vs 1442 MHz
Texture fill rate	413.0 GTexel/s vs 322.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt vs 235 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1430 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	17232 vs 16374

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro GP100

Around 40% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2560
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 847 vs 597
Around 1% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 84757 vs 83854

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	3584 vs 2560
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 12 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	847 vs 597
Geekbench - OpenCL	84757 vs 83854

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro GP100

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

597

847

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17232

16374

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

83854

84757

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT	NVIDIA Quadro GP100
PassMark - G2D Mark	597	847
PassMark - G3D Mark	17232	16374
Geekbench - OpenCL	83854	84757
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		355.937
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4858.771
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		25.191
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		144.928
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1056.078
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16640
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		13211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		22133
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16640
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		13211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		22133

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT	NVIDIA Quadro GP100
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Pascal
Code name	Navi 22	GP100
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	1 October 2016
Place in performance rating	90	87
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2581 MHz	1442 MHz
Compute units	40
Core clock speed	2321 MHz	1304 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	322.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	235 Watt
Transistor count	17200 million	15,300 million
Floating-point performance		10,329 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 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	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	384.0 GB/s	921.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	1430 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2