NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 560 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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.

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 560

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 1537 MHz vs 1200-1275 MHz
Around 21% higher texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 81.60 GTexel/s
2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 18 April 2017
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz vs 1200-1275 MHz
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s vs 81.60 GTexel/s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560

Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1090-1175 MHz vs 832 MHz
4.7x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Around 39% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 57671 vs 41518

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1090-1175 MHz vs 832 MHz
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	57671 vs 41518

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 560

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

41518

57671

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 560
Geekbench - OpenCL	41518	57671
PassMark - G3D Mark		3650
PassMark - G2D Mark		487
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.81
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		775.281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.602
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		64.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		257.062
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6571
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1779

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 560
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 4.0
Code name	GA107S	Polaris 21
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	18 April 2017
Place in performance rating	524	525
Design		Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation		4th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$99
Price now		$104.99
Type		Desktop, Laptop
Value for money (0-100)		54.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	1200-1275 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	1090-1175 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	1024
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s	20.40 GP/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	81.60 GTexel/s
Compute units		14/16
Floating-point performance		2.6 TFLOPs
Render output units		16
Stream Processors		896/1024
Texture Units		64
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		60-80 Watt
Transistor count		3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bridgeless CrossFire
Length		170 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)		450 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	112 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)