AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

15475 points

125% significantly better overall score

6870 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

326 FPS

182 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

144 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

216 FPS

112 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

104 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

295 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

130 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

127 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

60 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4154 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2289 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2429.25 points

68% significantly higher Blender score

1438.44 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

142590 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97794 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

157875 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

104773 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1800 MHz

2321 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

2581 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

12 GiB

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

624 GB/s

44% significantly higher memory bandwidth

432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

263 W

165 W

59% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

233 Gigapixels/s

41% slightly higher pixel rate

165.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

583 Gigatexels/s

40% slightly higher texture rate

415.68 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

36.04 TFLOPS

170% significantly better floating point performance

13.3 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8192

220% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

49% significantly 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

17th of 586

69th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

Radeon RX 7800 XT vs Radeon RX 6850M XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7800 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6850M XT in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6850M XT has a slightly 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 slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7800 XT has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6850M XT has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7800 XT at 263 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 Radeon RX 7800 XT over the Radeon RX 6850M XT.