AMD Radeon Vega 6 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 6 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 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

315 points

1882 points

497% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

8 FPS

49 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

24 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

6 FPS

33 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

18 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

7199 points

40962 points

468% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6854 points

37410 points

445% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

832 MHz

177% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1700 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

1537 MHz

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

13.6 Gigapixels/s

49.18 Gigapixels/s

261% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

40.8 Gigatexels/s

98.37 Gigatexels/s

141% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2048

433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

381st of 597

218th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2022 March

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 Vega 6 vs RTX A500 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the RTX A500 Laptop beats the Radeon Vega 6 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the RTX A500 Laptop 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 6 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX A500 Laptop over the Radeon Vega 6.