NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 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

3523 points

16% slightly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

56 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

331% significantly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52512 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

39991 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

50916 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59288 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

2310 MHz

161% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

2815 MHz

137% 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

384 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

33% slightly lower TDP

107 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

90.1 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

180.2 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

5.77 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

125% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% 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

137th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

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 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6500 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q beats the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q over the Radeon RX 6500 XT.