AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500M and AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL 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.

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 931 MHz
2.4x more boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Around 90% higher texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 80.88 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
3.2x more memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 391 vs 370
Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7761 vs 4769

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 1 February 2018
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 931 MHz
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s vs 80.88 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 14 nm
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	391 vs 370
PassMark - G3D Mark	7761 vs 4769

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Around 25% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 1024

Pipelines	1280 vs 1024

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

391

370

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7761

4769

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
PassMark - G2D Mark	391	370
PassMark - G3D Mark	7761	4769
Geekbench - OpenCL	38914

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 4.0
Code name	Navi 24	Polaris 22
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	1 February 2018
Place in performance rating	285	286
Type		Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz	1011 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	931 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)	161.8 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)	2.588 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.915 TFLOPS	2.588 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	1280
Pixel fill rate	76.80 GPixel/s	32.35 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s	80.88 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	5000 million
Compute performance		20
Texture Units		65 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	2.2	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	1024 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)