AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 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 4060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

5350 points

76% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

134 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

64 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

92 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

50 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

3318.42 points

684% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

89964 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

90182 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1545 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

1890 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

256 GB/s

77% 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

48% significantly higher pixel rate

60.48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

181.4 Gigatexels/s

0.67% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

11.61 TFLOPS

101% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

3072

200% 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

96th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2023 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 4060 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4060 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.