AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 259.99

$ 149.99

$ 110.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

129% significantly better overall score

1317 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

21 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

265.26 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24898 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23619 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

1740 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

1785 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

75 W

42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

215% significantly higher pixel rate

28.56 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

215% significantly higher texture rate

57.12 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

215% significantly better floating point performance

1.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

100% significantly more shading units

512

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

154th of 586

242nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2022 June

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 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1630 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly 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.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1630 has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1630.