Radeon RX 6850M XT vs R2 Mobile Graphics

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated75
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data19.12
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBeemaNavi 22
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)4 January 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 cores1282560
Core clock speed497 MHz2321 MHz
Boost clock speed300 MHz2581 MHz
Number of transistors930 million17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rate3.976413.0
Floating-point processing power0.1272 TFLOPS13.21 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 165 Watt

R2 Mobile Graphics has 65% lower power consumption.

RX 6850M XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics and Radeon RX 6850M XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R2 Mobile Graphics
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