NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Compare NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M 4 GB, 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

1882 points

1956 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

49 FPS

59 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

24 FPS

40 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

33 FPS

51 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

23 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

697.32 points

81% significantly higher Blender score

385.01 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40962 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

39238 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37410 points

46114 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

832 MHz

2000 MHz

140% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1537 MHz

2400 MHz

56% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

96 GB/s

128 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

49.18 Gigapixels/s

76.8 Gigapixels/s

56% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

98.37 Gigatexels/s

155.7 Gigatexels/s

58% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

100% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

216th of 586

212th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 March

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

RTX A500 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6500M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500M beats the RTX A500 Laptop in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6500M 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 6500M 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6500M over the RTX A500 Laptop.