GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking220not rated
Place by popularity83not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation58.69no data
Power efficiency15.91no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 24AD107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date19 January 2022 (2 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores10242560
Core clock speed2610 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed2815 MHz1605 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology6 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)107 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate180.2128.4
Floating-point processing power5.765 TFLOPS8.218 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6480
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Cores1620

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed2248 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.9 GB/s168.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2022 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 107 Watt 35 Watt

RX 6500 XT has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4050 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 205.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6500 XT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
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