- Graphics Processor: Navi 24
- Cores: 1024
- TMUs / ROPs: 64 / 32
Expert Verdict
A budget AMD Radeon RX 6500M graphics card with limited performance overall, excellent energy efficiency. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks.
Review
Gaming
14
Workstation
21
AI/ML
14
Energy Efficiency
78
Quick Comparison Final Score
27
Pros
- Great energy efficiency
- Hardware ray tracing support
Cons
- Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
- No DLSS upscaling support
Compare Radeon RX 6500M with other products
Full Specifications
Games
Performance
Forza Horizon 5
The Witcher 3
Counter-Strike 2
Far Cry 6
Hogwarts Legacy
Call of Duty
Ghost of Tsushima
Cyberpunk 2077
Tomb Raider
Average FPS
1080p High
1080p Ultra
1440p Ultra
4K Ultra
FPS Table
| 1080p High | 1080p Ultra | 1440p Ultra | 4K Ultra | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forza Horizon 5 | 36 | — | — | — |
| The Witcher 3 | 38 | — | — | — |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 45 | — | — | — |
| Far Cry 6 | 44 | — | — | — |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 24 | — | — | — |
| Call of Duty | 39 | — | — | — |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 19 | — | — | — |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 27 | — | — | — |
| Tomb Raider | 46 | — | — | — |
| Average FPS | 35 | — | — | — |
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High
46
1080p Ultra
35
1440p Ultra
23
4K Ultra
12
Margin of Error
Low
3D Mark
Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
| Steel Nomad Lite Score | 3850 |
|---|---|
| Time Spy | 3831 |
| Solar Bay | 15034 |
| Port Royal | 248 |
| Fire Strike | 12343 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 8150 |
| Night Raid | 45550 |
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 |
Passmark Graphics
Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
Blender
Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
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 |
General
| Vendor | Amd |
|---|---|
| Build | Discrete |
| Released | 4-Jan-22 |
| Case | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming |
| Segment | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | Navi 24 |
| Recommended CPU | -AMD Ryzen 5 6600Hor above |
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 |
| Tensor Cores | — |
| 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 |
| Max. Temperature | — |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 |
|---|
API
| DirectX | 12 |
|---|---|
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 |
| CUDA | — |
| Ray Tracing | Yes |
| DLSS | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4 |
