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 measurements and scores across compared devices
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

Memory specifications comparison
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

Performance specifications comparison
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

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6500M
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
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

API specifications comparison
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

Games specifications comparison
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

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
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

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
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

General specifications comparison
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

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
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

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
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

Physical specifications comparison
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

Raw Performance specifications comparison
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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