AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 2190 MHz
Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 2430 MHz
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 107 Watt vs 220 Watt

Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 2190 MHz
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz vs 2430 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt vs 220 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 73% higher texture fill rate: 311.0 GTexel/s vs 180.2 GTexel/s
4.3x more pipelines: 4352 vs 1024
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 6 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1088 vs 812
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 22739 vs 9583
2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 129915 vs 48727
12.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2913 vs 235

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 19 Jan 2022
Texture fill rate	311.0 GTexel/s vs 180.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines	4352 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 6 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1088 vs 812
PassMark - G3D Mark	22739 vs 9583
Geekbench - OpenCL	129915 vs 48727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2913 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

812

1088

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9583

22739

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

48727

129915

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

235

2913

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	812	1088
PassMark - G3D Mark	9583	22739
Geekbench - OpenCL	48727	129915
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	235	2913
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		474.547
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		40.491
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		190.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1830.143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ada Lovelace
Code name	Navi 24	AD106
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	2023
Place in performance rating	216	72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	2430 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	2190 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)	330.5 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)	21.15 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.765 TFLOPS	21.15 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	4352
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s	155.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s	311.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	220 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 4.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 12-pin
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.2	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s	288.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6