AMD Radeon RX 6800M vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6800M 12 GB with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 9 months newer GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4070 Mobile over RX 6800M
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800M
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 31% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 256 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 25%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 69% higher maximum theoretical performance (20 vs 11.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 19% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 68 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 80% more shading units (4608 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
142
86
67
44
139
89
77
56
The Witcher 3
129
108
76
40
164
129
95
53
Counter-Strike 2
212
143
104
54
236
183
130
71
Far Cry 6
116
98
76
44
121
109
87
51
Hogwarts Legacy
77
64
48
23
91
77
60
28
CoD: Modern Warfare III
106
100
66
45
111
105
77
51
Ghost of Tsushima
86
70
49
28
85
69
53
29
Cyberpunk 2077
83
74
44
21
99
84
53
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
139
124
85
45
147
137
100
53
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 121 133
1080p Ultra 96 109
1440p Ultra 68 81
4K Ultra 38 46
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
10149
12736
Time Spy 11509 12514
Solar Bay 44251 54815
Port Royal 5558 7416
Fire Strike 33457 30057
Wild Life Extreme 18898 23262
Night Raid 77742 113672
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
99418
115081
Background Blur 222.9 img/sec 158.5 img/sec
Face Detection 135.3 img/sec 116.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.46 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.14 Gpixels/sec 5.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.64 Gpixels/sec 6.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.92 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 432.6 Gpixels/sec 528.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13677.6 FPS 16372.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
6657
10642

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
13301
19482
G2D Mark 529 766
DirectX 11 128 FPS 177 FPS
DirectX 12 65 FPS 85 FPS
GPU Compute 5055 Ops/s 8365 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 694 & 13217 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1395.07
3584.78
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 96 & 2204 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6800M
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)Geekbench 6 OpenCL122515
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)Geekbench 6 OpenCL35869

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
17087
21186
GB6 ML Half Precision
18189
34404
GB6 ML Quantized
13247
16559
Image Classification (SP) 7861 8642
Image Segmentation (HP) 7803 20635
Image Super Resolution (Q) 21982 26378
Face Detection (HP) 23070 39776
Pose Estimation (Q) 93148 105983
Text Classification (SP) 2165 2995
Machine Translation (HP) 3022 4507
Object Detection (SP) 8375 10198
Depth Estimation (Q) 31430 41078
Style Transfer (SP) 178071 190315
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800M and GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 1, 2021 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 22 AD106 (GN21-X6)
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop -
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (56th and 23rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2116 MHz 735-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2300 MHz 1230-2175 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 36
Tensor Cores - 144
Ray-tracing Cores 40 36
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 147 GPixel/s 59-104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 368 GTexel/s 177-313 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
11.8 TFLOPS
11.3-20 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 145 W 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
Die Size 335 mm² 186 mm²
Transistor Count 17.2 billion 22.9 billion
Transistor Density 51.34 MTr/mm² 123.12 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6800M +31%
336 GB/s
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4a

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