AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

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

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AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6870 points

8% slightly better overall score

6305 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

144 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

136 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

81 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

130 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

114 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

60 FPS

62 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1438.44 points

3522.98 points

144% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

97794 points

104383 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

104773 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

98514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

143% significantly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

1455 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

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

45 W

266% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

136% significantly higher pixel rate

69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

415.68 Gigatexels/s

174% significantly higher texture rate

151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3328

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

53% significantly more texture mapping units

104

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

69th of 597

77th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6850M XT vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6850M XT beats the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6850M XT at 165 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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