AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

3792 points

25% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

82 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

52 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

58 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

39 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

1340.13 points

216% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

68305 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

50239 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

68305 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

50377 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

285% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

131% significantly higher boost clock speed

1215 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

288 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

60 W

78% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

15% slightly higher pixel rate

77.76 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

23% slightly higher texture rate

145.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

23% slightly better floating point performance

4.67 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1920

87% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

87% 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

128th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500 XT beats the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q in gaming performance.

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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 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 RTX 3000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is better than the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q.