NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop 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 3080 Laptop

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7890 points

14% slightly better overall score

6870 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

185 FPS

41 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

144 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS

104 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

130 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

60 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points

128% significantly higher Blender score

1438.44 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97794 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points

104773 points

0.90% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz

2321 MHz

109% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2581 MHz

67% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

3% slightly higher memory bandwidth

432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

43% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

148.3 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

11% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s

415.68 Gigatexels/s

40% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

18.98 TFLOPS

42% slightly better floating point performance

13.3 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

139% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

20% slightly more texture mapping units

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

59th of 586

69th of 586

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 3080 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6850M XT benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6850M XT in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6850M XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6850M XT at 165 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop over the Radeon RX 6850M XT.