NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 6 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

2012 points

2% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

59 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

40 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

30 FPS

51 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

19 FPS

23 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1534.25 points

298% significantly higher Blender score

385.01 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

62696 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

39238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58257 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

46114 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

945 MHz

2000 MHz

111% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

50 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 597

214th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

Quadro RTX 3000 vs Radeon RX 6500M specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 3000 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6500M in our tests.

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro RTX 3000 has significantly more memory with 6 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 6500M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 3000 at 80 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 Quadro RTX 3000 over the Radeon RX 6500M.