NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q AMD Radeon RX 6500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (2400MHz vs 1468MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +52%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

VS

Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

2000 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

2560

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 24

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

6 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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