AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2815MHz vs 2520MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +839%

54.19 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2025

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

1024

Shading Units

10752

64

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

16

RT Cores

84

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GB203

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

0

5.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

107 mm²

Die Size

377 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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