AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon R7 265

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon R7 265

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 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 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 204% (2815MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (107W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +204%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon R7 265

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Feb 2014

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

16

-

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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