AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 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 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (107W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +185%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2011

Navi II

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

14

1024

Shading Units

1120

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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