Radeon RX 6850M XT vs Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated77
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.88
Architectureno dataRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 22
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores322560
Core clock speed1296 MHz2321 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2581 MHz
Number of transistorsno data17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)44 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rateno data413.0
Floating-point processing powerno data13.21 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5-6400GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data12 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 44 Watt 165 Watt

Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU has a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 275% lower power consumption.

RX 6850M XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU and Radeon RX 6850M XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU
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