Radeon RX 6500M vs Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

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Radeon RX 6500M
Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)
Gaming
14
31
Workstation
21
43
AI/ML
14
31
Energy Efficiency
78
66
Quick Comparison Final Score
27
40
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between Radeon RX 6500M and Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500M

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

Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

  • + Blackwell 2.0 architecture
  • + GB206-300-A1 codename
  • + 8GB GDDR7 memory
  • + PCIe 5.0 x16 interface

Pros & Cons

Radeon RX 6500M
  • Great energy efficiency
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No DLSS upscaling support

"A budget AMD Radeon RX 6500M graphics card with limited performance overall, excellent energy efficiency. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 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 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) graphics card with modest workstation performance (43/100). Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
36
69
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

The Witcher 3

1080p High
38
97
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
45
130
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Far Cry 6

1080p High
44
83
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
24
56
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Call of Duty

1080p High
39
71
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
19
49
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
27
61
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)

Tomb Raider

1080p High
46
98
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)
FPS Table
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 36 — — — 69 — — —
The Witcher 3 38 — — — 97 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 45 — — — 130 — — —
Far Cry 6 44 — — — 83 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 24 — — — 56 — — —
Call of Duty 39 — — — 71 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 19 — — — 49 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 27 — — — 61 — — —
Tomb Raider 46 — — — 98 — — —
Average FPS 35——— 79———
Average FPS by Resolution
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)
1080p High 46 98
1080p Ultra 35 79
1440p Ultra 23 57
4K Ultra 12 32
Margin of Error Low High

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon RX 6500M
3850
Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) +123%
8571
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)
Time Spy 3831 8744
Solar Bay 15034 46594
Port Royal 248 5904
Fire Strike 12343 26026
Wild Life Extreme 8150 20405
Night Raid 45550 148588
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
Radeon RX 6500M
7346
Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) +126%
16571
Radeon RX 6500M Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell)
G2D Mark 371 768
DirectX 11 69 FPS 139 FPS
DirectX 12 33 FPS 79 FPS
GPU Compute 2545 Ops/s 6323 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
Radeon RX 6500M
384.34
Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) +841%
3616.28

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification Radeon RX 6500M ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
GB6 Compute Score 46706 112758
Background Blur 112.4 img/sec 186.3 img/sec
Face Detection 61.7 img/sec 104.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.49 Gpixels/sec 4.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.01 Gpixels/sec 5.27 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.81 Gpixels/sec 6.65 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.58 Gpixels/sec 1.29 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 183 Gpixels/sec 515.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6313.2 FPS 15588.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification Radeon RX 6500M ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 8067 16848
GB6 ML Half Precision 9896 32774
GB6 ML Quantized 5967 13334
Image Classification (SP) 2972 6726
Image Segmentation (HP) 4132 21836
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9120 18317
Face Detection (HP) 11506 39579
Pose Estimation (Q) 35378 68707
Text Classification (SP) 1536 2539
Machine Translation (HP) 1869 5168
Object Detection (SP) 3259 8919
Depth Estimation (Q) 11922 33328
Style Transfer (SP) 81312 119318
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
General
Specification Radeon RX 6500M ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released 4-Jan-22 18-Mar-25
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Professional
Segment Entry-level Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 24 GB206-300-A1
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 5 6600Hor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 255HXor above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification Radeon RX 6500M ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Base Clock 2000 MHz 952-1657 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2190 MHz 1657-2437 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1024 3328
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 104
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16 26
Tensor Cores 104
Ray-tracing Cores 16 26
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification Radeon RX 6500M ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 70 GPixel/s 53-78 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 140 GTexel/s 172-253 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 4.5 TFLOPS 11-16.2 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification Radeon RX 6500M ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 50 W 45-115 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 5 nm
Die Size 107 mm² 181 mm²
Transistor Count 5.4 billion 21.9 billion
Transistor Density 50.47 MTr/mm² 120.99 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification Radeon RX 6500M ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 Laptop (Blackwell) ↗
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7
API
Specification Radeon RX 6500M ↗ Nvidia RTX Pro 2000 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 1.4 2.1b

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