AMD Radeon R5 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R5 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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$ 45.99

$ 214.00 significantly less expensive

$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

102 points

3023 points

2863% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

64 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

46 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

56 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

26 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4869 points

52512 points

978% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5160 points

39991 points

675% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5213 points

50916 points

876% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5075 points

59288 points

1068% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

200 MHz

2310 MHz

1054% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

900 MHz

2815 MHz

212% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

613% significantly lower TDP

107 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

3.03 Gigapixels/s

90.1 Gigapixels/s

2871% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

12.13 Gigatexels/s

180.2 Gigatexels/s

1385% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

256

1024

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

502nd of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 September

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

Radeon R5 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT benchmarks

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

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 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 R5 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is better than the Radeon R5.