AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 199.96

$ 60.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

27% slightly better overall score

2374 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

48 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

32 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

28 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

330.93 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

28016 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33588 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

29387 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

32919 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

120% significantly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

171% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% 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

211.6 GB/s

46% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

40% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

66.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

35% slightly higher texture rate

132.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

35% slightly better floating point performance

4.25 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2048

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

185th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2015 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.4

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Quadro M5000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the Quadro M5000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly 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 significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro M5000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the Quadro M5000 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is better than the Quadro M5000.