AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro P4000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro P4000 8 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
$ 16.01 slightly less expensive
$ 276.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points
19% slightly better overall score
2522 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
53 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
42 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS
32 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4880 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points
464.31 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
42289 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points
41279 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
42289 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
41581 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz
88% significantly higher core clock speed
1227 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz
90% significantly higher boost clock speed
1480 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
243.3 GB/s
68% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W
105 W
1% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s
94.72 Gigapixels/s
5% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s
8% slightly higher texture rate
165.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS
8% slightly better floating point performance
5.30 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
1792
75% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
112
75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586
175th 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
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Quadro P4000 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card is better than the Quadro P4000 in our tests.

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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro P4000 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 Quadro P4000 has a slightly lower TDP at 105 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500 XT over the Quadro P4000.

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