Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

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Radeon RX 6500 XT
Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
Gaming
16
29
Workstation
22
39
AI/ML
17
27
Energy Efficiency
61
66
Quick Comparison Final Score
19
38
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between Radeon RX 6500 XT and Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500 XT

  • + RDNA 2.0 architecture
  • + Navi 24 codename
  • + 4GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 4.0 x4 interface

Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

  • + Blackwell 2.0 architecture
  • + GB207-300-A1 codename
  • + 8GB GDDR7 memory
  • + PCIe 5.0 x16 interface

Pros & Cons

Radeon RX 6500 XT
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No DLSS upscaling support

"A budget AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card with limited performance overall. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • DLSS upscaling support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions

"A entry-level Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) graphics card with modest workstation performance (39/100). Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
43
65
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

The Witcher 3

1080p High
49
94
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
69
125
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Far Cry 6

1080p High
54
79
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
27
53
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Call of Duty

1080p High
45
68
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
29
45
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
34
60
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Tomb Raider

1080p High
59
94
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
FPS Table
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 43 — — — 65 — — —
The Witcher 3 49 — — — 94 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 69 — — — 125 — — —
Far Cry 6 54 — — — 79 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 27 — — — 53 — — —
Call of Duty 45 — — — 68 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 29 — — — 45 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 34 — — — 60 — — —
Tomb Raider 59 — — — 94 — — —
Average FPS 45——— 76———
Average FPS by Resolution
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
1080p High 59 95
1080p Ultra 45 76
1440p Ultra 29 55
4K Ultra 15 29
Margin of Error Low High

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon RX 6500 XT
4764
Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) +71%
8158
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
Time Spy 4943 8545
Solar Bay 20002 17288
Port Royal 368 5015
Fire Strike 15575 19480
Wild Life Extreme 8989 —
Night Raid 65384 89940
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9632
Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) +53%
14784
Radeon RX 6500 XT Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell)
G2D Mark 817 731
DirectX 11 90 FPS 117 FPS
DirectX 12 38 FPS 73 FPS
GPU Compute 4342 Ops/s 5832 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
Radeon RX 6500 XT
422.78
Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) +544%
2723.94

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
GB6 Compute Score 53081 88051
Background Blur 130.3 img/sec 137.7 img/sec
Face Detection 70.1 img/sec 95 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.59 Gpixels/sec 2.99 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.21 Gpixels/sec 3.89 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.02 Gpixels/sec 4.7 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.65 Gpixels/sec 1.11 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 223 Gpixels/sec 396.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7470.5 FPS 12852.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 10359 14484
GB6 ML Half Precision 12861 29177
GB6 ML Quantized 7842 11633
Image Classification (SP) 3867 6114
Image Segmentation (HP) 5136 17332
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11758 15867
Face Detection (HP) 14844 32890
Pose Estimation (Q) 42787 60048
Text Classification (SP) 1986 2929
Machine Translation (HP) 2665 4631
Object Detection (SP) 4251 7844
Depth Estimation (Q) 19707 26902
Style Transfer (SP) 101802 94600
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
General
Specification Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released 19-Jan-22 18-Mar-25
Case Desktop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Professional
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 24 GB207-300-A1
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 12400or above -Intel Core Ultra 5 245HXor above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Base Clock 2310 MHz 1020-1627 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2815 MHz 1627-2407 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20
Tensor Cores No 80
Ray-tracing Cores 16 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 52-77 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTexel/s 130-193 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 5.8 TFLOPS 8.3-12.3 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 107 W 35-115 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 5 nm
Die Size 107 mm² 149 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 16.9 billion
Transistor Density 46.73 MTr/mm² 113.42 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7
API
Specification Radeon RX 6500 XT ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 1000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3
CUDA 12
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b

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