AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME, 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

42% slightly better overall score

2123 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

397% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48735 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40056 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

60508 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

83% significantly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

103% significantly higher boost clock speed

1380 MHz

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

256 GB/s

77% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

63% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

104% significantly higher pixel rate

44.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

198.7 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

6.36 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2304

125% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

201st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2020 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon RX 590 GME specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 GME in gaming.

Our database shows that 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 GME at 175 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 590 GME.