NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (107W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +826%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

240

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Navi 24

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

107W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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