Home GPU Comparison AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (2815MHz vs 1650MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +24%

7.181 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +75%

8635

Blender

Radeon RX 6500 XT

587

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +285%

2264

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +140%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +106%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +95%

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +107%

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +89%

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +70%

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +77%

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +80%

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +76%

122

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +103%

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +100%

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER +81%

174

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2019

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count

Compute Units

1024

Shading Units

2176

TMUs

136

ROPs

Tensor Cores

272

RT Cores

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

TU106

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

TU106-410-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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