AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, 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

3032 points

373% significantly better overall score

640 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

377% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1039 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

371% significantly higher Blender score

89.74 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

414% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10197 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

302% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

445% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9326 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

545% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

146% significantly higher core clock speed

937 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

171% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 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

199% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

10 W

970% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

442% significantly higher pixel rate

16.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

623% significantly higher texture rate

24.91 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

166% 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 588

304th of 588

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2019 February

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

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce MX250 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce MX250 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 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 MX250.