RTX 5000 Ada Generation vs Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R6 (Carrizo) with RTX 5000 Ada Generation, including specs and performance data.

R6 (Carrizo)
2015
12 Watt
1.51

RTX 5000 Ada Generation outperforms R6 (Carrizo) by a whopping 4934% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking97512
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.9620.84
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCarrizoAD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores38412800
Core clock speedno data1155 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz2550 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,020
Floating-point processing powerno data65.28 TFLOPS
ROPsno data176
TMUsno data400
Tensor Coresno data400
Ray Tracing Coresno data100

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data32 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data576.0 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 data4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD11
−4900%
550−600
+4900%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 6−7
−4900%
300−310
+4900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−4900%
100−105
+4900%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
−4900%
150−160
+4900%
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Hitman 3 6−7
−4900%
300−310
+4900%
Horizon Zero Dawn 14−16
−4900%
750−800
+4900%
Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−4900%
150−160
+4900%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8−9
−4900%
400−450
+4900%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−4900%
1650−1700
+4900%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 6−7
−4900%
300−310
+4900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−4900%
100−105
+4900%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
−4900%
150−160
+4900%
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Hitman 3 6−7
−4900%
300−310
+4900%
Horizon Zero Dawn 14−16
−4900%
750−800
+4900%
Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−4900%
150−160
+4900%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8−9
−4900%
400−450
+4900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14
−4900%
700−750
+4900%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−4900%
1650−1700
+4900%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 6−7
−4900%
300−310
+4900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−4900%
100−105
+4900%
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%
Hitman 3 6−7
−4900%
300−310
+4900%
Horizon Zero Dawn 14−16
−4900%
750−800
+4900%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8−9
−4900%
400−450
+4900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10−12
−4900%
550−600
+4900%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−4900%
1650−1700
+4900%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−4900%
150−160
+4900%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 2−3
−4900%
100−105
+4900%
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
−4900%
100−105
+4900%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−4900%
50−55
+4900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 0−1 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
−4900%
50−55
+4900%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−4900%
100−105
+4900%
Hitman 3 7−8
−4900%
350−400
+4900%
Horizon Zero Dawn 5−6
−4900%
250−260
+4900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
−4900%
50−55
+4900%
Watch Dogs: Legion 7−8
−4900%
350−400
+4900%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−4900%
200−210
+4900%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
−4900%
50−55
+4900%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
−4900%
50−55
+4900%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−4900%
50−55
+4900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 0−1 0−1
Far Cry 5 0−1 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−4900%
150−160
+4900%

This is how R6 (Carrizo) and RTX 5000 Ada Generation compete in popular games:

  • RTX 5000 Ada Generation is 4900% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.51 76.01
Recency 4 June 2015 9 August 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 250 Watt

R6 (Carrizo) has 1983.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has a 4933.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 5000 Ada Generation is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon R6 (Carrizo) in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R6 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while RTX 5000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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