AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
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AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
Navi 22
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)
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 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
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
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 4070 Laptop
- Performs better (up to 30%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 59% higher maximum theoretical performance (20 vs 12.6 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Shows 23% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 66 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 resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 139 83 64 45 |
139 89 77 56 |
| The Witcher 3 | 127 109 73 38 |
164 129 95 53 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 206 143 101 52 |
236 183 130 71 |
| Far Cry 6 | 113 99 74 39 |
121 109 87 51 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 75 65 44 23 |
91 77 60 28 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 106 98 64 41 |
111 105 77 51 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 81 66 47 26 |
85 69 53 29 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 78 72 41 19 |
99 84 53 25 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 137 117 84 40 |
147 137 100 53 |
| 1080p High | 118 | 133 |
| 1080p Ultra | 95 | 109 |
| 1440p Ultra | 66 | 81 |
| 4K Ultra | 36 | 46 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 11133 | 12514 |
| Solar Bay | 45816 | 54815 |
| Port Royal | 5933 | 7416 |
| Fire Strike | 26629 | 30057 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 21716 | 23262 |
| Night Raid | 73832 | 113672 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 217.9 img/sec | 158.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 142 img/sec | 116.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.42 Gpixels/sec | 4.35 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.23 Gpixels/sec | 5.67 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.02 Gpixels/sec | 6.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.97 Gpixels/sec | 1.36 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 429.7 Gpixels/sec | 528.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13653.9 FPS | 16372.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 661 | 766 |
| DirectX 11 | 150 FPS | 177 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 80 FPS | 85 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6801 Ops/s | 8365 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6850M XT
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 122515 |
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 35869 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 8455 | 8642 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 10479 | 20635 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 23685 | 26378 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 28924 | 39776 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 101734 | 105983 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2168 | 2995 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4554 | 4507 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 9084 | 10198 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 36761 | 41078 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 209185 | 190315 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6850M XT and GeForce RTX 4070 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 4, 2022 | 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 6900HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (53rd and 23rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2320 MHz | 735-2070 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 2180-2460 MHz (configurable) | 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 | 140-157 GPixel/s | 59-104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 349-394 GTexel/s | 177-313 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
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 | 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 | 2250 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 168000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
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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