Radeon RX 6500M
[ RADEON ] Graphics Cards

Radeon RX 6500M

Overall Score
26/100
GRADE D · Poor
Key Technical Specifications
Graphics (GPU) RDNA 2.0
[ EXPERT VERDICT · SUMMARY ]

Radeon RX 6500M is an engineering-tested graphics cards achieving an overall rating of 26/100. It is positioned for balanced everyday compute and power efficiency.

Benchmark Performance Scores

Normalized 0–100 Scale
Efficiency
77/100
Rating: Good
Gaming
14/100
Rating: Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
Fire Strike 12352
Night Raid 44693
Port Royal 248
Solar Bay 15098
Time Spy 3824
Wild Life Extreme 8137

API

API specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
DLSS No
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4
OpenCL 2.2
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
1080p High 46
1080p Ultra 35
1440p Ultra 23
4K Ultra 12
CoD: Modern Warfare III 43392617
Counter-Strike 2 64452913
Cyberpunk 2077 302713-
Far Cry 6 53443016
Forza Horizon 5 67352716
Ghost of Tsushima 2822159
Hogwarts Legacy 3022179
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 55432814
The Witcher 3 43381910

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 11922
Face Detection (HP) 11506
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 2972
Image Segmentation (HP) 4132
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9120
Machine Translation (HP) 1869
Object Detection (SP) 3259
Pose Estimation (Q) 35378
Style Transfer (SP) 81312
Text Classification (SP) 1536

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
API OpenCL
Background Blur 112.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.01 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 61.7 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.58 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.81 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 1.49 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 6313.2 FPS
Stereo Matching 183 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
Architecture RDNA 2.0
Build Discrete
Case Laptop
GPU Codename Navi 24
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 5 6600Hor above
Released January 4, 2022
Segment Entry-level
Vendor Amd

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
Base Clock 2000 MHz
Boost Clock 2190 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 16
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 16
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32
Shading Units 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64

Memory

Memory specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
Bus 64-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2000 MHz
Memory Size 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
DirectX 11 68 FPS
DirectX 12 33 FPS
G2D Mark 365
GPU Compute 2499 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
Die Size 107 mm²
Fabrication Process 6 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 50 W
Transistor Count 5.4 billion
Transistor Density 50.47 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications for Radeon RX 6500M
Specification Value
Pixel Fill Rate 70 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 140 GTexel/s

Strengths & Limitations

Key Advantages

  • Comprehensive positive benchmark metrics recorded.

Key Considerations

  • No major hardware limitations flagged during benchmark run.

Direct Competitors & Alternatives

Methodology, Provenance & Verification

Score version 2026.1 · Data verified 2026-08-26 · Source: official manufacturer datasheets and standardized reproducible benchmark suites (Geekbench 6, Cinebench R24, 3DMark).

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