RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB vs Radeon RX 6500M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking271not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.12no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 24GA104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date4 January 2022 (2 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years 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 cores10244096
Core clock speed2000 MHz495 MHz
Boost clock speed2400 MHz1170 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate153.6149.8
Floating-point processing power4.915 TFLOPS9.585 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs64128
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Cores1632

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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/s336.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 70 Watt

RX 6500M has an age advantage of 8 months, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 40% lower power consumption.

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500M and RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6500M is a notebook graphics card while RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB is a mobile workstation one.


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