AMD Radeon Pro 560X vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 560X and NVIDIA GeForce 6500 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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 Pro 560X

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 560X

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1004 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 110 nm
7.6x more memory clock speed: 5080 MHz vs 666 MHz
96.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3678 vs 38
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 711 vs 300

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	16 July 2018 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	1004 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 110 nm
Memory clock speed	5080 MHz vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3678 vs 38
PassMark - G2D Mark	711 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 560X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3678

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

711

300

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 560X	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
PassMark - G3D Mark	3678	38
PassMark - G2D Mark	711	300
Geekbench - OpenCL	17541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	48.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	679.583
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	62.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	247.728
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5367
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2495
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5367
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2495
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 560X	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Curie
Code name	Polaris 21	NV44 A2
Launch date	16 July 2018	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	546	548
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1004 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	1024
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	75 million
Texture fill rate		1.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5080 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		10.66 GB / s