AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Price

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$ 629.99

$ 259.99

$ 370.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points

367% significantly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS

222 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS

162 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS

201 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points

4965 points

22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points

486% significantly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points

223% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52512 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

39991 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

50916 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59288 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz

2310 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

2815 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

255% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

107 W

180% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

219% significantly higher pixel rate

90.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s

299% significantly higher texture rate

180.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS

299% significantly better floating point performance

5.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

400% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

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 6900 XT vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly 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 slightly 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 RX 6900 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 6900 XT at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6900 XT over the Radeon RX 6500 XT.