Radeon RX 6850 XT: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 6850 XT sales on 2022 at a recommended price of $649 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 18 GB/s are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 576.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 325 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6850 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 21 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2022 (2 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $649 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 6850 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6850 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4608 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Boost clock speed | 2250 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 26,800 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 325 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 648.0 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 20.74 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 128 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 288 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 6850 XT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6850 XT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 18 GB/s | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 576.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6850 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon RX 6850 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
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