AMD Radeon R7 M265 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M265 4 GB 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

176 points

3023 points

1617% 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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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6785 points

52512 points

673% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6701 points

39991 points

496% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6539 points

50916 points

678% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5824 points

59288 points

917% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

725 MHz

2310 MHz

218% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

825 MHz

2815 MHz

241% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

32 GB/s

144 GB/s

350% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s

90.1 Gigapixels/s

1049% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

23.52 Gigatexels/s

180.2 Gigatexels/s

666% 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

447th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

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

DDR3

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.6

Radeon R7 M265 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 M265 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500 XT over the Radeon R7 M265.