AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 47% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1574 MHz
Around 64% higher boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 1720 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
4.4x lower typical power consumption: 107 Watt vs 475 Watt
Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1612 MHz

Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs Dec 2019
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1574 MHz
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz vs 1720 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1612 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

2.4x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 180.2 GTexel/s
8x more pipelines: 8192 vs 1024
16x more maximum memory size: 64 GB vs 4 GB
Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 917 vs 817
Around 68% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15977 vs 9515
2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 98389 vs 48147

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	440.3 GTexel/s vs 180.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines	8192 vs 1024
Maximum memory size	64 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	917 vs 817
PassMark - G3D Mark	15977 vs 9515
Geekbench - OpenCL	98389 vs 48147

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

817

917

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9515

15977

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

48147

98389

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
PassMark - G2D Mark	817	917
PassMark - G3D Mark	9515	15977
Geekbench - OpenCL	48147	98389
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4921
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		14208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		14208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 5.1
Code name	Navi 24	Vega 20
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	Dec 2019
Place in performance rating	159	160
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	1720 MHz
Compute units	16	64
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1574 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)	880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)	28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.765 TFLOPS	14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	8192
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s	110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s	440.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	475 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	13230 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt	850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
Width		Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	2.2	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	64 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s	825.3 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	4096 bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1612 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)