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

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AMD Radeon RX 6500M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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

Main Differences

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)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500M

4.915 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +52%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2017

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2000 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

153.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

9.830 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

4.915 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GP104

Navi 24 XM

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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