Radeon RX 6500 vs RTX A2000

Place in performance ranking	133	257
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	18.76	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2022)	no data
GPU code name	GA106	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	10 August 2021 (2 years ago)	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$449	no data
Current price	$567 (1.3x MSRP)	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3328	no data
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	13,250 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	70 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	124.8	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on RTX A2000 and Radeon RX 6500 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	no data
Length	167 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	no data
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	no data
Memory bus width	192 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	12 GB/s	no data
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

4x mini-DisplayPort

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API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.6	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	3.0	no data
Vulkan	1.2	no data
CUDA	8.6	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX A2000 35.57
+75.6%

RX 6500 20.26

RTX A2000 outperforms Radeon RX 6500 by 76% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

RTX A2000 13768
+75.5%

RX 6500 7843

RTX A2000 outperforms Radeon RX 6500 by 76% in Passmark.