Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile vs Radeon RX 6850 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Xe-LPG (2023)
GPU code nameNavi 21Meteor Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2022 (2 years ago)14 December 2023 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$649 no data

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 cores4608384
Core clock speedno data300 MHz
Boost clock speed2250 MHz1800 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)325 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rate648.043.20
Floating-point processing power20.74 TFLOPS1.382 TFLOPS
ROPs1288
TMUs28824

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16Ring Bus
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed18 GB/sSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth576.0 GB/sno data
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 Connectors1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 325 Watt 28 Watt

RX 6850 XT has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 1060.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6850 XT and Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6850 XT is a desktop card while Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile is a notebook one.


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