NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

6870 points

51% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

112 FPS

144 FPS

32 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

104 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

130 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

60 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

1438.44 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

97794 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

104773 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

2321 MHz

157% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

2581 MHz

51% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

432 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

106% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

141% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

415.68 Gigatexels/s

143% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

13.3 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

49% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

160

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 590

69th of 590

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6850M XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6850M XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6850M XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6850M XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6850M XT at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6850M XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.