AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500M and AMD Radeon RX 590 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 36% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1469 MHz
  • Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1545 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 175 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 15 November 2018
Core clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1469 MHz
Boost clock speed 2400 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 175 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 590

  • Around 45% higher texture fill rate: 222.48 GTexel/s vs 153.6 GTexel/s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 789 vs 394
  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9390 vs 7768
  • Around 18% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 45900 vs 38902
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 222.48 GTexel/s vs 153.6 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 789 vs 394
PassMark - G3D Mark 9390 vs 7768
Geekbench - OpenCL 45900 vs 38902

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 590

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
394
789
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7768
9390
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
38902
45900
Name AMD Radeon RX 6500M AMD Radeon RX 590
PassMark - G2D Mark 394 789
PassMark - G3D Mark 7768 9390
Geekbench - OpenCL 38902 45900
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 137.469
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2083.862
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 139.477
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 762.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13383
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4757

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6500M AMD Radeon RX 590

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Navi 24 Polaris 30
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 15 November 2018
Place in performance rating 281 278
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2400 MHz 1545 MHz
Compute units 16 36
Core clock speed 2000 MHz 1469 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.915 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024
Pixel fill rate 76.80 GPixel/s 49.54 GP/s
Texture fill rate 153.6 GTexel/s 222.48 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 175 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 5,700 million
Floating-point performance 7.1 TFLOPs
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture Units 144

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Length 241 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 2.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB/s 256 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 8000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support