Radeon RX 6500 vs R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) and Radeon RX 6500, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L)
2014
0.99

RX 6500 outperforms R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) by a whopping 1749% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1161335
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)no data
GPU code nameBeemano data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date29 April 2014 (11 years ago)no data

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 cores128no data
Boost clock speed850 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nmno 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 bus width64 Bitno data
Shared memory+no data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)no data

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD6
−1733%
110−120
+1733%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−1650%
35−40
+1650%

Full HD
Medium

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−1650%
35−40
+1650%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−6000%
60−65
+6000%
Fortnite 1−2
−9800%
95−100
+9800%
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
−1167%
75−80
+1167%
Forza Horizon 5 1−2
−5800%
55−60
+5800%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 9−10
−689%
70−75
+689%
Valorant 30−35
−358%
140−150
+358%

Full HD
High

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 24−27
−812%
220−230
+812%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−1650%
35−40
+1650%
Dota 2 14−16
−613%
100−110
+613%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−6000%
60−65
+6000%
Fortnite 1−2
−9800%
95−100
+9800%
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
−1167%
75−80
+1167%
Forza Horizon 5 1−2
−5800%
55−60
+5800%
Metro Exodus 1−2
−3900%
40−45
+3900%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 9−10
−689%
70−75
+689%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7
−767%
50−55
+767%
Valorant 30−35
−358%
140−150
+358%

Full HD
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−1650%
35−40
+1650%
Dota 2 14−16
−613%
100−110
+613%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−6000%
60−65
+6000%
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
−1167%
75−80
+1167%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 9−10
−689%
70−75
+689%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7
−767%
50−55
+767%
Valorant 30−35
−1674%
550−600
+1674%

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 1−2
−9800%
95−100
+9800%

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 4−5
−1650%
70−75
+1650%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 6−7
−2150%
130−140
+2150%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 10−12
−1718%
200−210
+1718%

1440p
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 0−1
Far Cry 5 1−2
−4100%
40−45
+4100%
Forza Horizon 4 3−4
−1433%
45−50
+1433%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3
−1650%
35−40
+1650%

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 1−2
−4200%
40−45
+4200%

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 14−16
−143%
30−35
+143%
Valorant 5−6
−2020%
100−110
+2020%

4K
Ultra

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 2−3
−850%
18−20
+850%

4K
Epic

Fortnite 2−3
−850%
18−20
+850%

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 75−80
+0%
75−80
+0%

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 75−80
+0%
75−80
+0%
Grand Theft Auto V 65−70
+0%
65−70
+0%

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 75−80
+0%
75−80
+0%

1440p
High

Grand Theft Auto V 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%
Metro Exodus 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
Valorant 170−180
+0%
170−180
+0%

1440p
Ultra

Battlefield 5 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%

4K
High

Metro Exodus 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%

4K
Ultra

Battlefield 5 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%
Dota 2 65−70
+0%
65−70
+0%
Far Cry 5 21−24
+0%
21−24
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%

This is how R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) and RX 6500 compete in popular games:

  • RX 6500 is 1733% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Fortnite, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RX 6500 is 9800% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • RX 6500 performs better in 30 tests (68%)
  • there's a draw in 14 tests (32%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.99 18.31

RX 6500 has a 1749% higher aggregate performance score.

The Radeon RX 6500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R5 (Beema/Carrizo-L) in performance tests.

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