NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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

1650 points

1956 points

18% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

59 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

40 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

51 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

23 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

264.38 points

385.01 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

39238 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

46114 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

2000 MHz

92% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1127 MHz

2400 MHz

112% 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

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

160.4 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

100 W

50 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

72.13 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

108.2 Gigatexels/s

155.7 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.46 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

43% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

49% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

231st of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980M vs Radeon RX 6500M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6500M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 980M in our tests.

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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 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 980M.