AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6870 points
8206 points
19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

144 FPS
192 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

130 FPS
139 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

60 FPS
75 FPS
15 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2289 points
3149 points
37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1438.44 points
3690.41 points
156% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

97794 points
126840 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

104773 points
120026 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed
2280 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed
2497 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

432 GB/s
448 GB/s
3% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W
145 W
13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s
37% slightly higher pixel rate
119.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

415.68 Gigatexels/s
38% slightly higher texture rate
299.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
3840
49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
33% slightly more texture mapping units
120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
33% slightly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

69th of 586
51st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6850M XT vs GeForce RTX 5060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6850M XT in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 over the Radeon RX 6850M XT.

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