AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points
5934 points
96% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
150 FPS
86 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
75 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
103 FPS
47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS
57 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the Radeon RX 6500 XT and the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points
3004.43 points
610% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points
111833 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points
84673 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
102733 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
96388 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
108% significantly higher core clock speed
1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz
80% significantly higher boost clock speed
1560 MHz

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
448 GB/s
211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W
7% slightly lower TDP
115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s
124.8 Gigapixels/s
38% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s
249.6 Gigatexels/s
38% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS
15.97 TFLOPS
176% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
5120
400% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
160
150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
80
150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586
83rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

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 RTX 3070 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular GPU Comparisons