AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 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 16 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce 6800 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2005

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 6 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

107W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

NV42

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

6800 XT

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

110 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

0.202 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

222 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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