Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Processor: Navi 24
Cores: 1024
TMUs / ROPs: 64 / 32

Review

Gaming

Workstation

AI/ML

Energy Efficiency

NanoReview Final Score

Compare Radeon RX 6500M with other GPUs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5	67 35 27 16
The Witcher 3	43 38 19 10
Counter-Strike 2	64 45 29 13
Far Cry 6	53 44 30 16
Hogwarts Legacy	30 22 17 9
CoD: Modern Warfare III	43 39 26 17
Ghost of Tsushima	28 22 15 9
Cyberpunk 2077	30 27 13 -
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	55 43 28 14

Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High	46
1080p Ultra	35
1440p Ultra	23
4K Ultra	12
Margin of Error	Low

Test in Benchmarks

Performance tests in graphics benchmarks and applications

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games

Steel Nomad Lite Score

3854

Time Spy	3824
Solar Bay	15098
Port Royal	248
Fire Strike	12352
Wild Life Extreme	8137
Night Raid	44693

Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)

GB6 Compute Score

46706

Background Blur	112.4 img/sec
Face Detection	61.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection	1.49 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection	2.01 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur	1.81 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching	0.58 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching	183 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics	6313.2 FPS
API	OpenCL

Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features

G3D Mark Score

7306

G2D Mark	365
DirectX 11	68 FPS
DirectX 12	33 FPS
GPU Compute	2499 Ops/s

Sources: PassMark [5] – 395 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling

Blender GPU

384.34

Sources: Blender [9] – 20 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

8067

GB6 ML Half Precision

9896

GB6 ML Quantized

5967

Image Classification (SP)	2972
Image Segmentation (HP)	4132
Image Super Resolution (Q)	9120
Face Detection (HP)	11506
Pose Estimation (Q)	35378
Text Classification (SP)	1536
Machine Translation (HP)	1869
Object Detection (SP)	3259
Depth Estimation (Q)	11922
Style Transfer (SP)	81312
Framework	ONNX
Backend	DirectML

Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Detailed technical specifications of the Radeon RX 6500M

General

Vendor	Amd
Build	Discrete
Released	January 4, 2022
Case	Laptop
Purpose	Gaming
Segment	Entry-level
Architecture	RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename	Navi 24
Nvidia Equivalent	- GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
Recommended CPU	- AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or above

Laptop GPU ranking - 95th place

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock	2000 MHz
Boost Clock	2190 MHz
Shading Units	1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs)	64
Render Output Units (ROPs)	32
Compute Units (Pipelines)	16
Ray-tracing Cores	16
L1 Cache	128KB per cluster
L2 Cache	1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle	2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate	70 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate	140 GTexel/s

FLOPS (FP32)

4.5 TFLOPS

Physical

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

Memory

Memory Type	GDDR6
Memory Size	4 GB
Memory Clock	2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed	16000 Mbps
Bus	64-bit
ECC	No

Memory Bandwidth

128 GB/s

API

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

Competitors

1. Radeon RX 6500M vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop