AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Radeon RX 6500M
[ VERDICT ]
Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Radeon RX 6500M (26/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.
Benchmark Performance Comparison
Normalized Lab Scores| Benchmark | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| 4K Gaming | 91.0 Excellent | — |
| NanoReview Score | 85.0 Very Good | — |
| Rasterization | 94.0 Excellent | — |
| Ray Tracing | 78.0 Very Good | — |
| Efficiency | — | 77.0 Good |
| Gaming | — | 14.0 Poor |
Detailed Technical Specifications
Memory
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit) | — |
| Bus | — | 64-bit |
| ECC | — | No |
| Effective Memory Speed | — | 16000 Mbps |
| Memory Clock | — | 2000 MHz |
| Memory Size | — | 4 GB |
| Memory Type | — | GDDR6 |
Performance
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) | RDNA 2.0 |
| Stream Processors | 6,144 Stream Processors | — |
Power
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Tdp | 355W TBP | — |
3D Mark
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Strike | — | 12352 |
| Night Raid | — | 44693 |
| Port Royal | — | 248 |
| Solar Bay | — | 15098 |
| Time Spy | — | 3824 |
| Wild Life Extreme | — | 8137 |
API
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| DLSS | — | No |
| DirectX | — | 12 |
| DisplayPort | — | 1.4 |
| OpenCL | — | 2.2 |
| OpenGL | — | 4.6 |
| Ray Tracing | — | Yes |
| Vulkan | — | 1.3 |
Games
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p High | — | 46 |
| 1080p Ultra | — | 35 |
| 1440p Ultra | — | 23 |
| 4K Ultra | — | 12 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | — | 43392617 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | — | 64452913 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | — | 302713- |
| Far Cry 6 | — | 53443016 |
| Forza Horizon 5 | — | 67352716 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | — | 2822159 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | — | 3022179 |
| Margin of Error | — | Low |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | — | 55432814 |
| The Witcher 3 | — | 43381910 |
GeekBench 6 ML
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Backend | — | DirectML |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | — | 11922 |
| Face Detection (HP) | — | 11506 |
| Framework | — | ONNX |
| Image Classification (SP) | — | 2972 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | — | 4132 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | — | 9120 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | — | 1869 |
| Object Detection (SP) | — | 3259 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | — | 35378 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | — | 81312 |
| Text Classification (SP) | — | 1536 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| API | — | OpenCL |
| Background Blur | — | 112.4 img/sec |
| Edge Detection | — | 2.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | — | 61.7 img/sec |
| Feature Matching | — | 0.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | — | 1.81 Gpixels/sec |
| Horizon Detection | — | 1.49 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | — | 6313.2 FPS |
| Stereo Matching | — | 183 Gpixels/sec |
General
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) | RDNA 2.0 |
| Build | — | Discrete |
| Case | — | Laptop |
| GPU Codename | — | Navi 24 |
| Nvidia Equivalent | — | -GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile |
| Purpose | — | Gaming |
| Recommended CPU | — | -AMD Ryzen 5 6600Hor above |
| Released | — | January 4, 2022 |
| Segment | — | Entry-level |
| Vendor | — | Amd |
Graphics Processing Unit
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Base Clock | — | 2000 MHz |
| Boost Clock | — | 2190 MHz |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | — | 16 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | — | 2 IPC |
| L1 Cache | — | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | — | 1MB shared |
| Ray-tracing Cores | — | 16 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | — | 32 |
| Shading Units | — | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | — | 64 |
Passmark Graphics
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX 11 | — | 68 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | — | 33 FPS |
| G2D Mark | — | 365 |
| GPU Compute | — | 2499 Ops/s |
Physical
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Die Size | — | 107 mm² |
| Fabrication Process | — | 6 nm |
| Interface | — | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Manufacturing | — | TSMC |
| TGP | — | 50 W |
| Transistor Count | — | 5.4 billion |
| Transistor Density | — | 50.47 MTr/mm² |
Raw Performance
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | Radeon RX 6500M |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel Fill Rate | — | 70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | — | 140 GTexel/s |
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