AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 603.64 significantly less expensive

$ 863.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

24895 points

723% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

529 FPS

465 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

351 FPS

305 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

477 FPS

421 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

207 FPS

182 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

6837 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

4050.95 points

858% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

212685 points

317% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

238996 points

303% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

1855 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

2500 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

384 Bit

499% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

960 GB/s

566% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

231% significantly lower TDP

355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

480 Gigapixels/s

432% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

960 Gigatexels/s

432% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

61.42 TFLOPS

964% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

6144

499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

384

499% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

3rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2022 December

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 Radeon RX 7900 XTX comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 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 significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.