AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT 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 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (2815MHz vs 2250MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT +299%

23.04 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Radeon RX 6900 XT +325%

20932

Blender

Radeon RX 6500 XT

571

Radeon RX 6900 XT +416%

2948

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Radeon RX 6900 XT +426%

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 6900 XT +358%

142

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Radeon RX 6900 XT +312%

194

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Radeon RX 6900 XT +371%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Radeon RX 6900 XT +305%

77

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 6900 XT +274%

116

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Radeon RX 6900 XT +322%

114

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Radeon RX 6900 XT +284%

200

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

Radeon RX 6900 XT +191%

201

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

Radeon RX 6900 XT +323%

127

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

Radeon RX 6900 XT +253%

152

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

Radeon RX 6900 XT +96%

189

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2020

Navi II

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

80

-

1024

Shading Units

5120

64

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

-

16

RT Cores

80

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

720.0 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

46.08 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1440 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Navi 21

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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