AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock2400MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500M +355%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M

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Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

-

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

10

1024

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Granville

Navi 24 XM

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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