AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT and NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 1130 MHz vs 722 MHz
  • 3240.5x more texture fill rate: 224.6 GTexel/s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1536
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13556 vs 3568
  • Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 872 vs 556
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 Jan 2020 vs 30 August 2015
Core clock speed 1130 MHz vs 722 MHz
Texture fill rate 224.6 GTexel/s vs 69.31 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13556 vs 3568
PassMark - G2D Mark 872 vs 556

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13556
3568
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
872
556
Name AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q
PassMark - G3D Mark 13556 3568
PassMark - G2D Mark 872 556
Geekbench - OpenCL 64776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 207.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3560.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 20.486
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 148.938
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1111.648
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 13621
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7676

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT NVIDIA GRID M6-8Q

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Navi 10 XLE GM204
Launch date 21 Jan 2020 30 August 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 199 197
Type Desktop, Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1560 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1130 MHz 722 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 449.3 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 14.38 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.188 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 1536
Pixel fill rate 99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 224.6 GTexel/s 69.31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 10300 million 5,200 million
Floating-point performance 2,218 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 10.5 inches (267 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin None
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 160.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 5012 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5