GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

CORE STATE Navi 22

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2581 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

2,257

369

geekbench_opencl

82,762

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

99,456

31,001

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 6850M XT

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,560

1,664 -35.0%

Shaders

2,560

1,664 -35.0%

TMUs

160

104 -35.0%

ROPs

64

56 -12.5%

Compute Units

40

—

Clocks

Base Clock

2321 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2581 MHz

1178 MHz

Game Clock

2463 MHz

—

Memory Clock

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

12 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

12,288

4,096 -66.7%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

432.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

3 MB

2 MB

L3 Cache

96 MB

—

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

165.2 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

413.0 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

13.21 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

825.9 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

26.43 TFLOPS (2:1)

—

AI/RT

RT Cores

40

—

Power

TDP

165 W

148 W

TDP (W)

165

148 -10.3%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Navi 22

GM204

Generation

Navi Mobile (RX 6000M)

GeForce 900

Process Size

7 nm

28 nm

Transistors

17,200 million

5,200 million

Die Size

335 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

51.3M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

IGP

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Polaris Mobile

GeForce 700

Successor

—

GeForce 10

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