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).

 

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 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 481 vs 394
  • Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9926 vs 7768
  • Around 46% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 56665 vs 38902
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2560 vs 1024
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 481 vs 394
PassMark - G3D Mark 9926 vs 7768
Geekbench - OpenCL 56665 vs 38902

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
394
481
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7768
9926
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
38902
56665
Name AMD Radeon RX 6500M NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 394 481
PassMark - G3D Mark 7768 9926
Geekbench - OpenCL 38902 56665
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 281 282

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