AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330, 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
434% significantly better overall score
566 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 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

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points
480% significantly higher Blender score
72.87 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points
401% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10474 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points
299% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
10022 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
382% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10544 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
555% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9041 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
50% significantly higher core clock speed
1531 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz
76% significantly higher boost clock speed
1594 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
156% significantly higher memory bandwidth
56.06 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
253% significantly higher pixel rate
25.5 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s
370% significantly higher texture rate
38.26 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
166% significantly more texture mapping units
24

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
317th 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
2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce MX330 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500 XT beats the GeForce MX330 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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 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.

In addition, the GeForce MX330 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500 XT over the GeForce MX330.

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