AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA RTX A4000

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 1125.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1385.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

7111 points

135% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

175 FPS

111 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

88 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

119 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

65 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4965 points

11018 points

121% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

3139.35 points

642% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

116149 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

83390 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

122638 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

127645 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

214% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

80% significantly higher boost clock speed

1560 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

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

448 GB/s

211% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

30% slightly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

149.8 Gigapixels/s

66% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

299.5 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

232% 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

192

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

66th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2021 April

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 A4000 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the RTX A4000 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the RTX A4000 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 slightly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the RTX A4000 at 140 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the RTX A4000 is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.