Radeon RX 6850M XT vs ATI VE

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1537	79
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	18.86
Architecture	Rage 6 (2000−2007)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Rage 6	Navi 22
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	19 February 2001 (23 years ago)	4 January 2022 (3 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 cores	no data	2560
Core clock speed	183 MHz	2321 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2581 MHz
Number of transistors	30 million	17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	165 Watt
Texture fill rate	0.55	413.0
Floating-point processing power	no data	13.21 TFLOPS
ROPs	1	64
TMUs	3	160
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	40

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 size	no data	large
Interface	AGP 4x	PCIe 4.0 x16
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	DDR	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	12 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	183 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	2.928 GB/s	384.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	7.0	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.5
OpenGL	1.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	2.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	no data	139
1440p	no data	87
4K	no data	67

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	19 February 2001	4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	12 GB
Chip lithography	180 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	23 Watt	165 Watt

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