NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 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

5072 points

67% significantly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

106 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

75 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

75 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8739 points

76% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2209.96 points

422% significantly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85216 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52512 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73672 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

39991 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90113 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

50916 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85182 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59288 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1407 MHz

2310 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1650 MHz

2815 MHz

70% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

448 GB/s

211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

107 W

63% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

105.6 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

90.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

224.4 Gigatexels/s

24% slightly higher texture rate

180.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.18 TFLOPS

24% slightly better floating point performance

5.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2176

112% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

136

112% 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

100th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

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 RTX 2060 SUPER vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER over the Radeon RX 6500 XT.