AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points

6870 points

1058% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

144 FPS

131 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

104 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

130 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

60 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

2289 points

60% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

1438.44 points

1522% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10718 points

128981 points

1103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

97794 points

952% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

104773 points

819% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

2321 MHz

673% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

2581 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

266% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

932% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

415.68 Gigatexels/s

549% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

13.3 TFLOPS

549% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

2560

400% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th 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

Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon RX 6850M XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6850M XT is better than the Radeon Vega 8.