NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4302 points

119% significantly better overall score

1956 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

59 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

76 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2581.07 points

570% significantly higher Blender score

385.01 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

75551 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

39238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

75827 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

46114 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1455 MHz

2000 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1755 MHz

2400 MHz

36% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

96 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

Identical

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.16 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

36% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

140.4 Gigatexels/s

155.7 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.99 TFLOPS

80% significantly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

150% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 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 4050 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6500M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 6500M in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6500M has a slightly 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 slightly 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.

In addition, both the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and the Radeon RX 6500M have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 6500M.