NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2815MHz vs 1680MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 +11%

6.451 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 +52%

7483

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +60%

24

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +74%

54

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +72%

81

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +85%

26

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +68%

32

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +51%

47

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +59%

43

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +46%

76

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +59%

110

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 +70%

51

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 +53%

66

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 +52%

146

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 2060

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 20

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1680 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

30

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

1024

120

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

80.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

201.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

12.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

6.451 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

201.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

107W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Navi 24

TU106-200A-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Turing

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

6 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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