AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 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 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2815MHz vs 1680MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 +11%

6.451 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

GeForce RTX 2060 +52%

7486

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

GeForce RTX 2060 +60%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce RTX 2060 +74%

54

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

GeForce RTX 2060 +72%

81

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

GeForce RTX 2060 +85%

26

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

GeForce RTX 2060 +68%

32

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce RTX 2060 +51%

47

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

GeForce RTX 2060 +59%

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

GeForce RTX 2060 +46%

76

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GeForce RTX 2060 +59%

110

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GeForce RTX 2060 +70%

51

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GeForce RTX 2060 +53%

66

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 2060 +52%

146

Radeon RX 6500 XT

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GeForce RTX 2060

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 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

1365 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1920

64

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

16

RT Cores

30

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.451 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

TU106

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

TU106-200A-KA-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

160W

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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