AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
3.2x more core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 722 MHz
2599.9x more texture fill rate: 180.2 GTexel/s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 812 vs 556
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9583 vs 3568

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs 30 August 2015
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 722 MHz
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	812 vs 556
PassMark - G3D Mark	9583 vs 3568

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Around 50% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1024
Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 107 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Pipelines	1536 vs 1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 107 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

812

556

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9583

3568

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
PassMark - G2D Mark	812	556
PassMark - G3D Mark	9583	3568
Geekbench - OpenCL	48727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	235

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Navi 24	GM204
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	30 August 2015
Place in performance rating	216	217
Type		Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	722 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.765 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	1536
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s	69.31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	5,200 million
Floating-point performance		2,218 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s	160.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5