AMD Radeon R5 430 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R5 430 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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$ 31.99

$ 228.00 significantly less expensive

$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

185 points

3023 points

1534% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

64 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

46 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

56 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

26 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5855 points

52512 points

796% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5312 points

39991 points

652% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5652 points

50916 points

800% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4817 points

59288 points

1130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

2310 MHz

216% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

2815 MHz

260% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

36.8 GB/s

144 GB/s

291% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

113% significantly lower TDP

107 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

90.1 Gigapixels/s

1343% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

18.72 Gigatexels/s

180.2 Gigatexels/s

862% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

1024

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

437th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon R5 430 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 430 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 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 6500 XT 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.

In addition, the Radeon R5 430 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 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 6500 XT over the Radeon R5 430.