AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 259.99
$ 1040.00 significantly less expensive
$ 1299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points
19480 points
544% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
480 FPS
416 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
226 FPS
180 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
334 FPS
278 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS
183 FPS
157 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points
6585 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points
8733.11 points
1965% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
241464 points
374% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
217807 points
267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed
2025 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz
18% slightly higher boost clock speed
2375 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
16 GiB
300% significantly more memory

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
678.4 GB/s
371% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W
292% significantly lower TDP
420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s
228 Gigapixels/s
153% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s
760 Gigatexels/s
321% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS
48.64 TFLOPS
742% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
10240
900% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
320
400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
96
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586
9th 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
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

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 4080 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly 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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 over the Radeon RX 6500 XT.

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