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).

 

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 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17474 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 17474 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 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 847 vs 618
  • Around 11% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 88540 vs 79619
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 3584 vs 2560
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 12 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 847 vs 618
Geekbench - OpenCL 88540 vs 79619

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
618
847
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
17474
16374
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
79619
88540
Name AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT NVIDIA Quadro GP100
PassMark - G2D Mark 618 847
PassMark - G3D Mark 17474 16374
Geekbench - OpenCL 79619 88540
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 91 92
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