Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (98/100)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leads overall with a score of 98/100 compared to Radeon RX 6500 XT (19/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
Efficiency 49.0 Poor 61.0 Average WINNER
Gaming 99.0 Excellent WINNER 16.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
Fire Strike 75325 15575
Night Raid 214655 65355
Port Royal 39888 368
Solar Bay 255911 20010
Time Spy 42614 4942
Wild Life Extreme 110070 8990

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
CUDA 12
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 2.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
1080p High 284 60
1080p Ultra 242 45
1440p Ultra 196 30
4K Ultra 118 15
CoD: Modern Warfare III 305296252176 54423318
Counter-Strike 2 36226320393 95674418
Cyberpunk 2077 25322116071 363018-
Far Cry 6 221198185112 64544016
Forza Horizon 5 309235215175 84463322
Ghost of Tsushima 206170158107 39292110
Hogwarts Legacy 23518915089 36282112
Margin of Error High Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 319298224121 70613619
The Witcher 3 343311216116 60502814

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 90853 19707
Face Detection (HP) 103224 14844
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 16903 3867
Image Segmentation (HP) 48518 5136
Image Super Resolution (Q) 54618 11758
Machine Translation (HP) 7291 2665
Object Detection (SP) 26498 4251
Pose Estimation (Q) 338587 42787
Style Transfer (SP) 635289 101802
Text Classification (SP) 3894 1986

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 366.1 img/sec 130.3 img/sec
Edge Detection 35.2 Gpixels/sec 2.21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 248 img/sec 70.1 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.47 Gpixels/sec 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 45 Gpixels/sec 2.02 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 23.3 Gpixels/sec 1.59 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 42574.6 FPS 7470.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 3040 Gpixels/sec 223 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300-A1 Navi 24
Launch price (MSRP) $8559 $199
Purpose Professional Gaming
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above -Intel Core i5 12400or above
Released March 18, 2026 January 19, 2022
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 3050

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
Base Clock 1590 MHz 2310 MHz
Boost Clock 2617 MHz 2815 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 128MB shared 1024KB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 188 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 190 32
Shading Units 24064 1024
Tensor Cores 752 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 752 64

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
Bus 512-bit 64-bit
ECC Yes No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2248 MHz
Memory Size 96 GB 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
DirectX 11 339 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 154 FPS 38 FPS
G2D Mark 1391 816
GPU Compute 26607 Ops/s 4305 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
Die Size 750 mm² 107 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 6 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x4
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 600 W 107 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 5 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 46.73 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Radeon RX 6500 XT
Pixel Fill Rate 497 GPixel/s 90 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1968 GTexel/s 180 GTexel/s

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