AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile 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, 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 960 MHz
2.3x more boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 1200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 808 vs 540

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs 29 January 2019
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 960 MHz
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 12 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	808 vs 540

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

Around 88% higher pipelines: 1920 vs 1024
Around 34% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 107 Watt
6.2x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11353 vs 9554
25.5x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5888 vs 231

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1920 vs 1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 107 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11353 vs 9554
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5888 vs 231

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

808

540

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9554

11353

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

231

5888

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	808	540
PassMark - G3D Mark	9554	11353
Geekbench - OpenCL	48630
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	231	5888
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		17150
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		17150
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3720
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Turing
Code name	Navi 24	TU106B
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	29 January 2019
Place in performance rating	205	202
Price now		$349.99
Type		Laptop
Value for money (0-100)		62.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	1200 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	960 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	12 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	1920
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	80 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	10,800 million
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
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	14000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6