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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060

19 out 100
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
VS
36 out 100
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

  1. Differences
  2. Review
  3. General
  4. Benchmarks
  5. Processor
  6. Memory
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Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison
Processors:
Radeon RX 6500 XT
vs
GeForce RTX 4060

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
84
46
33
20
127
81
70
49
The Witcher 3
60
46
27
16
142
114
82
46
Counter-Strike 2
96
67
46
19
204
154
114
57
Far Cry 6
65
55
40
19
107
96
75
42
Hogwarts Legacy
38
29
20
10
80
66
50
26
COD Modern Warfare 3
51
45
29
19
96
89
64
41
Ghost of Tsushima
37
28
21
10
74
61
45
25
Cyberpunk 2077
36
33
19
n/a
83
74
44
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
69
61
36
18
130
119
87
43
Avg FPS
1080p High60116
1080p Ultra4695
1440p Ultra3070
4K Ultra1539
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4786
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
10688
Time Spy495110620
Solar Bay1997949040
Port Royal3676050
Fire Strike1557728559
Night Raid65281121867
Sources: 3DMark [AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
53081
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
106633
Background Blur130.3 frames/s186.9 frames/s
Face Detection70.1 frames/s112.7 frames/s
Horizon Detection1.59 Gpix/sec3.92 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection2.21 Gpix/sec5.16 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur2.02 Gpix/sec4.94 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.65 Gpix/sec1.34 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching223 Gpix/sec446.2 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics7470.5 fps14935.1 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
Sources: GeekBench v6 [AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
9578
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
19712
G2D Mark8101080
DirectX 1190 fps174 fps
DirectX 1238 fps77 fps
GPU Compute4502 Ops/s9311 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
52.4 fps
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
118.3 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)360.9 fps709 fps
Car Chase373.9 fps615.4 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)278.5 fps496.1 fps
T-Rex1305.6 fps2635.8 fps
ALU 21331.2 fps3284 fps
Driver Overhead 2259.2 fps280.8 fps
APIOpenGLOpenGL
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellation1300.53372.6
Sources: GFXBench 5 [AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT], [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
14234
Image Classification (SP)n/a7696
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a13706
Horizon Detectionn/a23289
Face Detection (HP)n/a31126
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a78361
Text Classification (SP)n/a3315
Machine Translation (HP)n/a3491
Object Detection (SP)n/a9386
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a36778
Style Transfer (SP)n/a148120
Frameworkn/aONNX
Backendn/aDirectML
Sources: GeekBench v6 [Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060]

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
3174.4

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced January, 19, 2022 May, 18, 2023
Form Factor PC use PC use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ada Lovelace
Codename Navi 24 AD107
Price 199 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 2310 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2815 MHz 2460 MHz
Shader Units 1024 3072
TMUs 64 96
ROPs 32 48
Execution Units n/a 24
Ray Tracing Cores 16 24
Tensor Cores No 96
L1 cache 128 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 1024 KB/core 24000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 Gpix/sec 118 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTex/s 236 GTex/s
FLOPS 5.8 TFLOPS 15.1 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 107 W 115 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 6 nm 5 nm
Transistor Size 107 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor count 5 billion 18 billion
Transistor density 46.73 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Frequency 2248 MHz n/a
Bus 64 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 18000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 4 GB 8 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
143.9 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 8.9
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 the clear winner in this comparison.

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