NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 80% higher pipelines: 4608 vs 2560
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 165 Watt
Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 99986 vs 83854
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 607 vs 603

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 Mar 2023 vs 4 Jan 2022
Pipelines	4608 vs 2560
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 165 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	99986 vs 83854
PassMark - G2D Mark	607 vs 603

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
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 17453 vs 15799

Specifications (specs)
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
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	17453 vs 15799

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

99986

83854

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

607

603

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15799

17453

Name	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	99986	83854
PassMark - G2D Mark	607	603
PassMark - G3D Mark	15799	17453

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD106	Navi 22
Launch date	21 Mar 2023	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	86	88
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	2581 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	2321 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	4608	2560
Pixel fill rate	81.36 GPixel/s	165.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	244.1 GTexel/s	413.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	165 Watt
Transistor count	22900 million	17200 million
Compute units		40
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
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	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	384.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	192 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6