Intel HD 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Compare Intel HD 500 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 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

46 points

14121 points

30597% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

1 FPS

286 FPS

285 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

208 FPS

207 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

1 FPS

257 FPS

256 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

122 FPS

122 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

1070 points

170008 points

15788% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1362 points

114610 points

8314% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

913 points

167644 points

18261% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

1240 points

171121 points

13700% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

200 MHz

1825 MHz

812% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

650 MHz

2250 MHz

246% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

6 W

4900% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

1.3 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

22053% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

7.8 Gigatexels/s

720 Gigatexels/s

9130% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

5233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

2566% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

6300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

543rd of 586

24th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 September

2020 August

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

HD 500 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU is faster than the HD 500 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6900 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 6900 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.

In addition, the HD 500 has a significantly lower TDP at 6 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 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 Radeon RX 6900 XT over the HD 500.