GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6800M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking147not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-10066
Power efficiency16.46no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 22GA107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date31 May 2021 (3 years ago)17 December 2021 (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 cores25602048
Core clock speed2116 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speed2390 MHz1155 MHz
Number of transistors17,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)145 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate382.473.92
Floating-point processing power12.24 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs16064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Cores4032

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s96 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 May 2021 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 145 Watt 30 Watt

RX 6800M has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 2050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 months, and 383.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6800M and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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