AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs AMD Radeon VII 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 685.01 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

6138 points

103% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

107 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

100 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

106 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

56 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

9129 points

83% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

817.47 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

86533 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

77122 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

92086 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

91729 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

60% significantly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

4096 Bit

6300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

1024 GB/s

611% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

180% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

139% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

139% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

3840

274% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

274% 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

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon VII benchmarks

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

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon VII has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 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 VII over the Radeon RX 6500 XT.