Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated220
Place by popularitynot in top-10083
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data58.69
Power efficiencyno data15.91
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA104Navi 24
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)19 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores51201024
Core clock speed780 MHz2610 MHz
Boost clock speed1290 MHz2815 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt107 Watt
Texture fill rate206.4180.2
Floating-point processing power13.21 TFLOPS5.765 TFLOPS
ROPs8032
TMUs16064
Tensor Cores160no data
Ray Tracing Cores4016

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2248 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s143.9 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.2
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 19 January 2022
Chip lithography 8 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 107 Watt

RTX 3070 Max-Q has 33.8% lower power consumption.

RX 6500 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and Radeon RX 6500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6500 XT is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
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