AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (2815MHz vs 2430MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 263W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 XT +547%

37.32 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7800 XT +307%

20026

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

Blender

Radeon RX 7800 XT +367%

2742

Radeon RX 6500 XT

587

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +460%

84

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +416%

160

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +427%

248

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +207%

43

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +494%

113

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +438%

167

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +366%

140

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +225%

140

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +97%

190

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Jan 2022

Navi III

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1295 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

16

3840

Shading Units

1024

240

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

16

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

583.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

74.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

37.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

Navi 24

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

6 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

263W

TDP

107W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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