AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 370.00 significantly less expensive

$ 629.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

14371 points

375% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

336 FPS

272 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

169 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

245 FPS

189 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

137 FPS

111 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4636 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

6144.78 points

1353% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

192880 points

278% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

181592 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

1980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

2475 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

504.2 GB/s

250% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

105% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

198 Gigapixels/s

119% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

554.4 Gigatexels/s

207% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

7168

599% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

250% 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 586

21st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

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 4070 SUPER comparison

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

The Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly 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 slightly 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 Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER at 220 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 SUPER is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.

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