NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 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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$ 677.99

$ 259.99

$ 418.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5888 points

94% significantly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

145 FPS

81 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

103 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

66 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

10586 points

113% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2096.93 points

395% significantly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105171 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52512 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73163 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

39991 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

103585 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

50916 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93415 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59288 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1620 MHz

2310 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz

2815 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

230 W

107 W

114% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

116.2 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

90.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s

93% significantly higher texture rate

180.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS

93% significantly better floating point performance

5.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

200% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

200% 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

85th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

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 5000 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 6500 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 5000 at 230 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro RTX 5000 is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.