AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 82% (2815MHz vs 1545MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +23%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT +3%

4918

Radeon RX 590

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Radeon RX 590 +60%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 590 +48%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Radeon RX 590 +51%

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Radeon RX 590 +44%

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Radeon RX 590 +42%

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

Radeon RX 590 +46%

101

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

Radeon RX 590 +40%

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

Radeon RX 590 +55%

67

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

Radeon RX 590 +14%

110

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2018

Navi II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

36

-

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

6 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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