Radeon RX 6850M XT

Graphics Processor: Navi 22
Cores: 2560
TMUs / ROPs: 160 / 64

Review

Gaming

Workstation

AI/ML

Energy Efficiency

NanoReview Final Score

Compare Radeon RX 6850M XT with other GPUs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5	139 83 64 45
The Witcher 3	127 109 73 38
Counter-Strike 2	206 143 101 52
Far Cry 6	113 99 74 39
Hogwarts Legacy	75 65 44 23
CoD: Modern Warfare III	106 98 64 41
Ghost of Tsushima	81 66 47 26
Cyberpunk 2077	78 72 41 19
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	137 117 84 40

Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High	118
1080p Ultra	95
1440p Ultra	66
4K Ultra	36
Margin of Error	High

Test in Benchmarks

Performance tests in graphics benchmarks and applications

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games

Steel Nomad Lite Score

9771

Time Spy	11133
Solar Bay	45816
Port Royal	5933
Fire Strike	26629
Wild Life Extreme	21716
Night Raid	73832

Sources: 3DMark [1]

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
Face Detection	142 img/sec
Horizon Detection	3.42 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection	5.23 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur	4.02 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching	0.97 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching	429.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics	13653.9 FPS
API	OpenCL

Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features

G3D Mark Score

17363

G2D Mark	661
DirectX 11	150 FPS
DirectX 12	80 FPS
GPU Compute	6801 Ops/s

Sources: PassMark [5] – 84 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling

Blender GPU

1438.44

Sources: Blender [9] – 13 samples

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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

GB6 ML Quantized

15383

Image Classification (SP)	8455
Image Segmentation (HP)	10479
Image Super Resolution (Q)	23685
Face Detection (HP)	28924
Pose Estimation (Q)	101734
Text Classification (SP)	2168
Machine Translation (HP)	4554
Object Detection (SP)	9084
Depth Estimation (Q)	36761
Style Transfer (SP)	209185
Framework	ONNX
Backend	DirectML

Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Detailed technical specifications of the Radeon RX 6850M XT

General

Vendor	Amd
Build	Discrete
Released	January 4, 2022
Case	Laptop
Purpose	Gaming
Segment	High-end
Architecture	RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename	Navi 22
Nvidia Equivalent	- GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Recommended CPU	- AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX or above

Laptop GPU ranking - 53rd place

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock	2320 MHz
Boost Clock	2180-2460 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units	2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs)	160
Render Output Units (ROPs)	64
Compute Units (Pipelines)	40
Ray-tracing Cores	40
L1 Cache	128KB per cluster
L2 Cache	3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle	2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate	140-157 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate	349-394 GTexel/s

FLOPS (FP32)

11.2-12.6 TFLOPS

Physical

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

Memory

Memory Type	GDDR6
Memory Size	12 GB
Memory Clock	2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed	168000 Mbps
Bus	192-bit
ECC	No

Memory Bandwidth

432 GB/s

API

DirectX	12
Vulkan	1.3
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.1
Ray Tracing	Yes
DLSS	No
DisplayPort	1.4

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