AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1130 MHz vs 400 MHz
140375x more texture fill rate: 224.6 GTexel/s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 110 nm
48x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 666 MHz
355x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13490 vs 38
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 871 vs 300

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 Jan 2020 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	1130 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	224.6 GTexel/s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	13490 vs 38
PassMark - G2D Mark	871 vs 300

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13490

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

871

300

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
PassMark - G3D Mark	13490	38
PassMark - G2D Mark	871	300
Geekbench - OpenCL	64726
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	1669

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Curie
Code name	Navi 10 XLE	NV44 A2
Launch date	21 Jan 2020	1 October 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$279
Place in performance rating	210	582
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1560 MHz
Compute units	36
Core clock speed	1130 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	110 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
Pixel fill rate	99.84 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	224.6 GTexel/s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	10300 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	10.5 inches (267 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12	9.0c
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR2