AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500M and NVIDIA RTX A2000 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, 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).

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

2.7x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1815 MHz
Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 145.2 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
Around 90% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 95 Watt
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)

Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz vs 1815 MHz
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s vs 145.2 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

2.5x more pipelines: 2560 vs 1024
Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 485 vs 391
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9906 vs 7761
Around 46% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 56649 vs 38914

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2560 vs 1024
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	485 vs 391
PassMark - G3D Mark	9906 vs 7761
Geekbench - OpenCL	56649 vs 38914

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

391

485

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7761

9906

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

38914

56649

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	391	485
PassMark - G3D Mark	7761	9906
Geekbench - OpenCL	38914	56649
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		202.984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2138.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		16.498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		151.433
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		729.947
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		12750
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		12750
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3355

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 24	GA106
Launch date	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	285	282
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz	1815 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)	145.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)	9.293 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.915 TFLOPS	9.293 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2560
Pixel fill rate	76.80 GPixel/s	87.12 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s	145.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	95 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	13250 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	2.2	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	192 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1500 MHz (12 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6