NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile and AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 45% higher pipelines: 7424 vs 5120
Around 82% lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 300 Watt

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 28 Oct 2020
Pipelines	7424 vs 5120
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Around 87% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 975 MHz
Around 50% higher boost clock speed: 2250 MHz vs 1500 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 720.0 GTexel/s vs 348.0 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 8 nm
Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1048 vs 722
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26728 vs 17463
Around 32% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 166004 vs 126188

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1825 MHz vs 975 MHz
Boost clock speed	2250 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Texture fill rate	720.0 GTexel/s vs 348.0 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 8 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1048 vs 722
PassMark - G3D Mark	26728 vs 17463
Geekbench - OpenCL	166004 vs 126188

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

722

1048

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17463

26728

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

126188

166004

Name	NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	722	1048
PassMark - G3D Mark	17463	26728
Geekbench - OpenCL	126188	166004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		543.753
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		51.155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2566.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		17213
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		17213
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		21090

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A5500 Mobile	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	RDNA 2.0
Code name	GA103	Navi 21
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	28 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating	61	62
Launch price (MSRP)		$999
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz	2250 MHz
Core clock speed	975 MHz	1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	696.0 GFLOPS (1:32)	1440 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	22.27 TFLOPS (1:1)	46.08 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	22.27 TFLOPS	23.04 TFLOPS
Pipelines	7424	5120
Pixel fill rate	144.0 GPixel/s	288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	348.0 GTexel/s	720.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	165 Watt	300 Watt
Compute units		80
Transistor count		26800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Form factor		Triple-slot
Height		50 mm (2 inches)
Length		267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)		700 Watt
Width		120 mm (4.7 inches)
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	512 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6