Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2815MHz
Lower TDP (107W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
Radeon RX 6500 XT
5765
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Jan 2022
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2310 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2815 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2248 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
143.9GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
16
2816
Shading Units
1024
176
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
1024 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
90.08 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
180.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
11.53 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.765 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
107W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
Navi 24
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
5.4 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
107 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
6.3
Shader Model
6.6
