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?

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3032 points

5980 points

97% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

151 FPS

87 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

104 FPS

48 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

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

3004.43 points

610% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

111833 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

84673 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

102733 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) 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

160

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 597

82nd of 597

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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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.

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 Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop at 115 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.