GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs Radeon HD 6850M

Place in performance ranking	855	85
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.13	no data
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Granville Pro/LP	GN20-E7 GA104
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	6 January 2011 (13 years ago)	12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Current price	$338	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	800	6144
Core clock speed	575 / 675 MHz	780 - 1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1245 - 1710 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate	27.00	296.6
Floating-point performance	1,080.0 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 6850M and GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	large
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16

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	DDR3, GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB/s	384.0 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 Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.0	6.5
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2
CUDA	no data	8.6

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

HD 6850M 1.95

RTX 3080 Mobile 41.57
+2032%

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 6850M by 2032% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

HD 6850M 6246

RTX 3080 Mobile 75159
+1103%

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 6850M by 1103% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

HD 6850M 1470

RTX 3080 Mobile 38087
+2492%

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile outperforms Radeon HD 6850M by 2492% in 3DMark 11 Performance GPU.

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:

900p	20 −1900%	400−450 +1900%
Full HD	26 −373%	123 +373%
1440p	3−4 −2567%	80 +2567%
4K	2−3 −2450%	51 +2450%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

−3250%

134
+3250%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −6000%	122 +6000%
Battlefield 5	2−3 −5800%	110−120 +5800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−11 −1040%	110−120 +1040%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −2825%	117 +2825%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −12700%	128 +12700%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −9100%	92 +9100%
Forza Horizon 4	3−4 −6333%	193 +6333%
Hitman 3	3−4 −5100%	156 +5100%
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3 −5850%	119 +5850%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 −1240%	65−70 +1240%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −1488%	127 +1488%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −5100%	104 +5100%
Battlefield 5	2−3 −6900%	140 +6900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−11 −1040%	110−120 +1040%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −2375%	99 +2375%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −12000%	121 +12000%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −10000%	101 +10000%
Forza Horizon 4	3−4 −6133%	187 +6133%
Hitman 3	3−4 −4800%	147 +4800%
Horizon Zero Dawn	2−3 −4750%	97 +4750%
Metro Exodus	3−4 −3200%	99 +3200%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 −1380%	74 +1380%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −1400%	120 +1400%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 −3700%	190 +3700%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −3800%	78 +3800%
Battlefield 5	2−3 −6600%	134 +6600%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −2150%	90 +2150%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −11300%	114 +11300%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −8900%	90 +8900%
Forza Horizon 4	3−4 −5167%	158 +5167%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 −2020%	106 +2020%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −1650%	70−75 +1650%
Hitman 3	4−5 −2800%	116 +2800%
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10 −756%	77 +756%
Metro Exodus	0−1	56
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −4800%	49 +4800%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	5−6 −1820%	96 +1820%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −3300%	30−35 +3300%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −3300%	102 +3300%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 −3850%	79 +3850%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −1850%	35−40 +1850%
Hitman 3	2−3 −2050%	40−45 +2050%
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8 −686%	55 +686%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −3100%	32 +3100%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −4200%	43 +4200%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	36
Far Cry 5	3−4 −1733%	55 +1733%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 −1060%	58 +1060%

This is how HD 6850M and RTX 3080 Mobile compete in popular games:

RTX 3080 Mobile is 1900% faster in 900p
RTX 3080 Mobile is 373% faster in 1080p
RTX 3080 Mobile is 2567% faster in 1440p
RTX 3080 Mobile is 2450% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Far Cry 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RTX 3080 Mobile is 12700% faster than the HD 6850M.

All in all, in popular games:

Without exception, RTX 3080 Mobile surpassed HD 6850M in all 47 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.95	41.57
Recency	6 January 2011	12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	150 Watt