AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7790 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 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 107W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +221%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7790

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon HD 7790

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2013

Navi II

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

14

-

1024

Shading Units

896

64

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

85W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Bonaire

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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