AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6850M XT 12 GB with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 1 year and 2 months newer GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 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 4060 Mobile over RX 6850M XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6850M XT
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 69% higher memory bandwidth: 432 vs 256 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • 16% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 12.6 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
139
83
64
45
120
77
66
44
The Witcher 3
127
109
73
38
141
112
79
42
Counter-Strike 2
206
143
101
52
205
153
110
54
Far Cry 6
113
99
74
39
103
92
75
43
Hogwarts Legacy
75
65
44
23
74
62
45
25
CoD: Modern Warfare III
106
98
64
41
95
85
59
37
Ghost of Tsushima
81
66
47
26
74
60
42
23
Cyberpunk 2077
78
72
41
19
82
72
42
21
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
137
117
84
40
127
116
83
43
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 118 113
1080p Ultra 95 92
1440p Ultra 66 67
4K Ultra 36 37
Margin of Error High 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
10212
Time Spy 11133 10397
Solar Bay 45816 45002
Port Royal 5933 5819
Fire Strike 26629 26481
Wild Life Extreme 21716 19820
Night Raid 73832 98330
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
101515
Background Blur 217.9 img/sec 142.7 img/sec
Face Detection 142 img/sec 103.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.42 Gpixels/sec 3.83 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.23 Gpixels/sec 4.93 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.02 Gpixels/sec 4.63 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.97 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 429.7 Gpixels/sec 430.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13653.9 FPS 13519.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

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

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 661 731
DirectX 11 150 FPS 155 FPS
DirectX 12 80 FPS 72 FPS
GPU Compute 6801 Ops/s 6789 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 84 & 22366 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1438.44
3293.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 13 & 4321 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6850M XT
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Geekbench 6 OpenCL115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)Geekbench 6 OpenCL101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)Geekbench 6 OpenCL107583
📘 2025-11-17 (kritan)Cinebench 202410306

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
20047
GB6 ML Half Precision
20997
30738
GB6 ML Quantized
15383
Image Classification (SP) 8455 7421
Image Segmentation (HP) 10479 19041
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23685 20913
Face Detection (HP) 28924 35464
Pose Estimation (Q) 101734 67110
Text Classification (SP) 2168 3086
Machine Translation (HP) 4554 4740
Object Detection (SP) 9084 8644
Depth Estimation (Q) 36761 32456
Style Transfer (SP) 209185 142039
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6850M XT and GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 4, 2022 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 22 AD107 (GN21-X4)
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop -
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (53rd and 43rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2320 MHz 1140-2295 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2180-2460 MHz (configurable) 1470-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 24
Tensor Cores - 96
Ray-tracing Cores 40 24
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 140-157 GPixel/s 71-114 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 349-394 GTexel/s 141-228 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
11.2-12.6 TFLOPS
9-14.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 130-165 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
Die Size 335 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 17.2 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 51.34 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 168000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
432 GB/s
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 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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