AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M 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

1632 points

1956 points

19% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

33 FPS

59 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

24 FPS

40 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

35 FPS

51 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

23 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

31356 points

39238 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

36756 points

46114 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1074 MHz

2000 MHz

86% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1226 MHz

2400 MHz

95% 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

224 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

50 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

39.23 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

95% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

137.3 Gigatexels/s

155.7 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.39 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

13% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

75% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

232nd of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

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 RX 560 XT vs Radeon RX 6500M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500M beats the Radeon RX 560 XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500M 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 6500M 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 6500M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560 XT at 150 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 6500M over the Radeon RX 560 XT.