AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A2000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A2000

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 264.97 significantly less expensive

$ 524.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

3755 points

24% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

96 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

45 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

64 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

35 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

268% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1346 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

1954.21 points

362% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

76373 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

58378 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

73300 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

69543 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

311% significantly higher core clock speed

562 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

134% significantly higher boost clock speed

1200 MHz

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

70 W

52% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

57.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

44% significantly higher texture rate

124.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

7.99 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

3328

224% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

62% significantly more texture mapping units

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

130th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2021 August

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 A2000 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A2000 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the RTX A2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 70 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 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 RTX A2000 is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.