AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Radeon RX 6850M XT

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Radeon RX 6850M XT (36/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent —
DeviceBenchmark Score 85.0 Very Good —
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent —
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good —
Efficiency — 41.0 Poor
Gaming — 33.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit) —
Bus — 192-bit
ECC — No
Effective Memory Speed — 168000 Mbps
Memory Clock — 2250 MHz
Memory Size — 12 GB
Memory Type — GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) RDNA 2.0
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors —

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Tdp 355W TBP —

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Fire Strike — 26629
Night Raid — 73832
Port Royal — 5933
Solar Bay — 45816
Time Spy — 11133
Wild Life Extreme — 21716

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
DLSS — No
DirectX — 12
DisplayPort — 1.4
OpenCL — 2.1
OpenGL — 4.6
Ray Tracing — Yes
Vulkan — 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
1080p High — 118
1080p Ultra — 95
1440p Ultra — 66
4K Ultra — 36
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 106986441
Counter-Strike 2 — 20614310152
Cyberpunk 2077 — 78724119
Far Cry 6 — 113997439
Forza Horizon 5 — 139836445
Ghost of Tsushima — 81664726
Hogwarts Legacy — 75654423
Margin of Error — High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 1371178440
The Witcher 3 — 1271097338

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Backend — DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) — 36761
Face Detection (HP) — 28924
Framework — ONNX
Image Classification (SP) — 8455
Image Segmentation (HP) — 10479
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 23685
Machine Translation (HP) — 4554
Object Detection (SP) — 9084
Pose Estimation (Q) — 101734
Style Transfer (SP) — 209185
Text Classification (SP) — 2168

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
API — OpenCL
Background Blur — 217.9 img/sec
Edge Detection — 5.23 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection — 142 img/sec
Feature Matching — 0.97 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur — 4.02 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection — 3.42 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics — 13653.9 FPS
Stereo Matching — 429.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) RDNA 2.0
Build — Discrete
Case — Laptop
GPU Codename — Navi 22
Nvidia Equivalent — -GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Purpose — Gaming
Recommended CPU — -AMD Ryzen 9 6900HXor above
Released — January 4, 2022
Segment — High-end
Vendor — Amd

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Base Clock — 2320 MHz
Boost Clock — 2180-2460 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) — 40
Instructions Per Cycle — 2 IPC
L1 Cache — 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache — 3MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores — 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) — 64
Shading Units — 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) — 160

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
DirectX 11 — 150 FPS
DirectX 12 — 80 FPS
G2D Mark — 661
GPU Compute — 6801 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Die Size — 335 mm²
Fabrication Process — 7 nm
Interface — PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing — TSMC
TGP — 130-165 W (configurable)
Transistor Count — 17.2 billion
Transistor Density — 51.34 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6850M XT
Pixel Fill Rate — 140-157 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate — 349-394 GTexel/s

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