Radeon PRO W6500M vs RTX A3000 Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking169not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency31.91no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA104Navi 24
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2021 (3 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40961024
Core clock speed600 MHz1512 MHz
Boost clock speed1230 MHz2040 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)70 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate157.4130.6
Floating-point processing power10.08 TFLOPS4.178 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs12864
Tensor Cores128no data
Ray Tracing Cores3216

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s128.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.2
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 70 Watt 25 Watt

RTX A3000 Mobile has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

PRO W6500M, on the other hand, has a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 180% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX A3000 Mobile and Radeon PRO W6500M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile
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