AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 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

3023 points
1255% significantly better overall score
223 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
53 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points
1339% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3649 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points
1034% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3524 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
1175% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3991 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
1582% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3524 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
143% significantly higher core clock speed
950 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz
196% significantly higher boost clock speed
950 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
100% significantly more memory
2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s
125% significantly higher memory bandwidth
64 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W
50 W
113% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s
1085% significantly higher pixel rate
7.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s
492% significantly higher texture rate
30.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
166% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
100% significantly more texture mapping units
32

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586
411th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 660M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500 XT beats the GeForce GTX 660M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 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 GeForce GTX 660M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 660M.

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