AMD Radeon RX 5600 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 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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$ 199.98

$ 60.01 significantly less expensive

$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3570 points

18% slightly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

77 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

56 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

69 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1479 points

4965 points

235% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

609.00 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

48650 points

52512 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37453 points

39991 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

62239 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

50916 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53743 points

59288 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1130 MHz

2310 MHz

104% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

2815 MHz

80% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

107 W

40% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

99.84 Gigapixels/s

10% slightly higher pixel rate

90.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199.68 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

180.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.39 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

5.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

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

135th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

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 RX 5600 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5600 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

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. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 5600 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5600 is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.