AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 182% (2815MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (107W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +40%

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT +109%

4918

Radeon R9 280X

2348

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2013

Navi II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

352 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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