AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA PG506 242

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 24GB VRAM PG506 242 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 95% (2815MHz vs 1440MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 165W)

NVIDIA PG506 242 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

PG506 242 +79%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

PG506 242

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Navi II

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

64bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

3584

64

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GA100

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.6

Shader Model

N/A

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