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AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs RX 5500M

Radeon RX 6500M
VS
Radeon RX 5500M
AMD Radeon RX 6500M
Navi 24
AMD Radeon RX 5500M
Navi 14

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6500M with 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 2 years and 3 months older RX 5500M that utilizes 22 pipelines and 1408 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 5500M over RX 6500M
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5500M
  • Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 224 vs 128 GB/s
  • Has 38% more shading units (1408 vs 1024)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6500M
vs
RX 5500M

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
67
35
27
16
72
38
32
15
The Witcher 3
43
38
19
10
48
39
21
11
Counter-Strike 2
64
45
29
13
70
48
33
16
Far Cry 6
53
44
30
16
52
46
31
15
Hogwarts Legacy
30
22
17
9
29
25
17
10
CoD: Modern Warfare III
43
39
26
17
44
37
27
15
Ghost of Tsushima
28
22
15
9
30
20
16
9
Cyberpunk 2077
30
27
13
-
30
28
14
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
55
43
28
14
55
47
28
16
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 46 48
1080p Ultra 35 36
1440p Ultra 23 24
4K Ultra 12 13
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6500M +2%
3854
RX 5500M
3766
Time Spy 3824 4287
Solar Bay 15098 -
Port Royal 248 -
Fire Strike 12352 12813
Wild Life Extreme 8137 6440
Night Raid 44693 42057
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6500M +1%
46706
RX 5500M
46415
Background Blur 112.4 img/sec 89.3 img/sec
Face Detection 61.7 img/sec 50.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.49 Gpixels/sec 1.91 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.01 Gpixels/sec 2.74 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.81 Gpixels/sec 2.25 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.58 Gpixels/sec 0.49 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 183 Gpixels/sec 159.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6313.2 FPS 5898.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6500M +21%
7306
RX 5500M
6049
G2D Mark 365 414
DirectX 11 68 FPS 36 FPS
DirectX 12 33 FPS 30 FPS
GPU Compute 2499 Ops/s 2339 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 395 & 486 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6500M +10%
384.34
RX 5500M
348.51
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 22 & 13 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6500M +18%
8067
RX 5500M
6824
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6500M +29%
9896
RX 5500M
7661
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6500M +16%
5967
RX 5500M
5150
Image Classification (SP) 2972 2845
Image Segmentation (HP) 4132 3023
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9120 8505
Face Detection (HP) 11506 8964
Pose Estimation (Q) 35378 29278
Text Classification (SP) 1536 1142
Machine Translation (HP) 1869 1920
Object Detection (SP) 3259 3032
Depth Estimation (Q) 11922 14009
Style Transfer (SP) 81312 58664
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6500M and RX 5500M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 4, 2022 October 7, 2019
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 1.0
GPU Codename Navi 24 Navi 14
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile -
Successor - - Radeon RX 6500M
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or above - AMD Ryzen 5 5600H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (96th and 114th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2000 MHz 1375 MHz
Boost Clock 2190 MHz 1645 MHz
Shading Units 1024 1408
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 88
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 22
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 1MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 70 GPixel/s 53 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 140 GTexel/s 145 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6500M
4.5 TFLOPS
RX 5500M +2%
4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 50 W 85 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 7 nm
Die Size 107 mm² 158 mm²
Transistor Count 5.4 billion 6.4 billion
Transistor Density 50.47 MTr/mm² 40.51 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 4 GB 4 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 128-bit
ECC No -
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6500M
128 GB/s
RX 5500M +75%
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4

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8 (44.4%)
10 (55.6%)
Total votes: 18

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