AMD Radeon RX 590 GME vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 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

2123 points

8% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

42 FPS

59 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

40 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

51 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

23 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40056 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

39238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60508 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

46114 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

2000 MHz

59% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1380 MHz

2400 MHz

73% 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

256 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

128 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

50 W

250% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

44.16 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

198.7 Gigatexels/s

27% slightly higher texture rate

155.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.36 TFLOPS

27% slightly better floating point performance

4.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

125% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% 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

200th of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 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 590 GME vs Radeon RX 6500M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 590 GME graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6500M in our tests.

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 590 GME at 175 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 590 GME over the Radeon RX 6500M.