AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs ATI FireGL V8600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 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 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (107W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +1210%

5.765 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

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FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2007

Navi II

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

4

1024

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

R600

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

159W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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