NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1966 points

0.51% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

44 FPS

59 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

40 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

51 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

23 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

379.89 points

385.01 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

36740 points

39238 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34464 points

46114 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1020 MHz

2000 MHz

96% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1125 MHz

2400 MHz

113% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

42% much lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

113% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

72 Gigatexels/s

155.7 Gigatexels/s

116% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.30 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

116% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

Identical

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

210th of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6500M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500M also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q has a much lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500M at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500M over the GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q.