AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 71% (2815MHz vs 1650MHz)
Lower TDP (107W vs 184W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6500 XT
5.765 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+24%
7.181 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 6500 XT
4953
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+62%
8024
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 6500 XT
2280
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+62%
3697
3DMark Speed Way
Radeon RX 6500 XT
180
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+773%
1572
Blender
Radeon RX 6500 XT
571
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+231%
1893
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
15
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+100%
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
31
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+93%
60
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
47
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+93%
91
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
14
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+92%
27
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
19
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+78%
34
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
31
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+54%
48
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
27
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+66%
45
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
52
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+65%
86
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
69
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+69%
117
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
30
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+90%
57
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
43
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+100%
86
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 6500 XT
96
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
+81%
174
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Dec 2021
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
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
34
1024
Shading Units
2176
64
TMUs
136
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
272
16
RT Cores
34
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
79.20 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
Board Design
107W
TDP
184W
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 Processor
Navi 24
GPU Name
TU106
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
GPU Variant
TU106-300-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
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
