AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop, 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
7909 points
161% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
190 FPS
127 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
95 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
137 FPS
81 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS
76 FPS
51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points
3588.48 points
748% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
109744 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
112405 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
65% significantly higher core clock speed
1395 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz
66% significantly higher boost clock speed
1695 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
10% slightly higher pixel rate
81.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s
244.1 Gigatexels/s
35% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS
15.62 TFLOPS
170% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
4608
350% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
144
125% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
48
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586
57th 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
2023 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 4070 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. 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 4070 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 4070 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.

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