NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 Laptop

AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7909 points

15% slightly better overall score

6870 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

190 FPS

47 FPS significantly 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

137 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

130 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

76 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

60 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3588.48 points

149% significantly higher Blender score

1438.44 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

109744 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97794 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

112405 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

104773 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1395 MHz

2321 MHz

66% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2581 MHz

52% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

432 GB/s

68% significantly higher memory bandwidth

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

81.36 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

103% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

244.1 Gigatexels/s

415.68 Gigatexels/s

70% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

15.62 TFLOPS

17% slightly better floating point performance

13.3 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4608

79% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

160

11% 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

57th of 586

69th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 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 4070 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6850M XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6850M XT in gaming.

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6850M XT at 165 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop over the Radeon RX 6850M XT.