GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 vs Radeon RX 6850M XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking77not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency18.88no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 22GA102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)21 October 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 cores25606144
Core clock speed2321 MHz1575 MHz
Boost clock speed2581 MHz1770 MHz
Number of transistors17,200 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)165 Watt290 Watt
Texture fill rate413.0339.8
Floating-point processing power13.21 TFLOPS21.75 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs160192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Cores4048

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 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount12 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s608.3 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 HDMI 2.1, 3x 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 4 January 2022 21 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 165 Watt 290 Watt

RX 6850M XT has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 75.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6850M XT and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6850M XT is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
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