AMD Radeon RX 540 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 540 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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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Price

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$ 25.99

$ 234.00 significantly less expensive

$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

352 points

3023 points

758% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

9 FPS

64 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

46 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

8 FPS

56 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

26 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10620 points

52512 points

394% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9390 points

50916 points

442% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9443 points

59288 points

527% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1219 MHz

2310 MHz

89% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1219 MHz

2815 MHz

130% 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

96 GB/s

144 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

19.5 Gigapixels/s

90.1 Gigapixels/s

362% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

39.01 Gigatexels/s

180.2 Gigatexels/s

361% significantly higher texture rate

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% 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

359th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 540 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 540 in gaming.

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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 540.