AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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Price

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$ 259.99
$ 2505.74 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3032 points
42789 points
1311% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
1019 FPS
956 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
503 FPS
457 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
740 FPS
684 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS
425 FPS
400 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points
14480 points
191% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points
14992.38 points
3446% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
383325 points
652% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
380401 points
541% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed
2017 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz
16% slightly higher boost clock speed
2407 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
32 GiB
700% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
512 Bit
700% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W
437% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
370% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
21760
2025% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
680
962% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
176
450% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 599
1st of 599

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

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