AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q 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.

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

2.4x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 832 MHz
2.1x more boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1155 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 73.92 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 832 MHz
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz vs 1155 MHz
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s vs 73.92 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 50 Watt

Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark	386
PassMark - G3D Mark	7533
Geekbench - OpenCL	39298

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 24	GA107
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	17 Dec 2021
Place in performance rating	295	not rated
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz	1155 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	832 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)	147.8 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)	9.462 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.915 TFLOPS	4.731 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2048
Pixel fill rate	76.80 GPixel/s	36.96 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s	73.92 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Height		35 mm, 1.4 inches
Length		229 mm, 9 inches
Width		113 mm, 4.4 inches
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	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	96.00 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	64 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6