NVIDIA Quadro K6000 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1650 points

1956 points

18% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

59 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

40 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

24 FPS

51 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

20 FPS

23 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

354.70 points

385.01 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23863 points

39238 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

25409 points

46114 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

797 MHz

2000 MHz

150% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

902 MHz

2400 MHz

166% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

200% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

499% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288.4 GB/s

125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

50 W

350% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

54.12 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

41% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

216.5 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

155.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.20 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2880

181% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

274% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

230th of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Quadro K6000 vs Radeon RX 6500M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6500M graphics card is better than the Quadro K6000 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500M 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 6500M 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 Quadro K6000 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500M over the Quadro K6000.