AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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

3023 points

83% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

32 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

25 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

21 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2939 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

264.38 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

23785 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

26093 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24516 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23881 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

122% significantly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

149% significantly higher boost clock speed

1127 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

160.4 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

100 W

7% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

72.13 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

108.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

66% significantly better floating point performance

3.46 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1536

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% 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

230th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 980M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980M in gaming.

Our database shows that 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 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500 XT over the GeForce GTX 980M.