NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Price

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$ 659.00

$ 259.99

$ 399.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4821 points

59% significantly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

71 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

53 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9001 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2206.17 points

421% significantly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85818 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52512 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73515 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

39991 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

50916 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59288 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

2310 MHz

63% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

2815 MHz

73% 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

103.7 Gigapixels/s

15% slightly higher pixel rate

90.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

180.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

5.77 TFLOPS

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

106th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

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 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2070 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 2070 at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.