NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

15360 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2815MHz vs 2520MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1332%

82.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +642%

36499

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +2070%

12393

Radeon RX 6500 XT

571

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +1133%

185

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +803%

280

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +546%

304

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +571%

94

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +873%

185

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +529%

195

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +588%

186

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +290%

203

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +208%

213

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +450%

165

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +330%

185

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +93%

186

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 40

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

128

SM Count

-

16384

Shading Units

1024

512

TMUs

64

176

ROPs

32

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

72 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

107W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Navi 24

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

6 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

609 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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