RTX A5500 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6500

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Primary details

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

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Architectureno dataAmpere (2020−2025)
GPU code nameno dataGA103
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release dateno data22 March 2022 (4 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 coresno data7424
Core clock speedno data585 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1260 MHz
Number of transistorsno data22,000 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data80 Watt
Texture fill rateno data292.3
Floating-point processing powerno data18.71 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58
L1 Cacheno data7.3 MB
L2 Cacheno data4 MB

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.6
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500 and RTX A5500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6500 is a notebook graphics card while RTX A5500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.

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