AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A1000 Laptop, 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

21% slightly better overall score

2485 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

62 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

43 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

1140.23 points

169% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

48617 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

46592 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

266% significantly higher core clock speed

630 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

146% significantly higher boost clock speed

1140 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

176 GB/s

22% slightly 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

64% significantly higher pixel rate

54.72 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

146% significantly higher texture rate

72.96 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

2048

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

178th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

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 RTX A1000 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card is better than the RTX A1000 Laptop 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the RTX A1000 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500 XT over the RTX A1000 Laptop.