AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 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
$ 1560.00 significantly less expensive
$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points
33119 points
995% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
787 FPS
723 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
382 FPS
336 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
567 FPS
511 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS
318 FPS
293 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points
9236 points
86% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points
11723.75 points
2673% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
318192 points
524% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
273214 points
360% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
3% slightly higher core clock speed
2235 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz
11% slightly higher boost clock speed
2520 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
24 GiB
499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
384 Bit
499% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s
1010 GB/s
601% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W
320% significantly lower TDP
450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s
483.8 Gigapixels/s
436% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s
1290 Gigatexels/s
615% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
1331% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
16384
1500% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
512
700% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
192
499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586
2nd 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 October

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 4090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 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 4090 at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.

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