Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 22 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2815MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 1999
Navi II
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
-
2815 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2248 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
1024
Shading Units
-
64
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
-
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
11.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.765 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
360.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
107W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 24
GPU Name
NV10
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
220 nm
5.4 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
107 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
2.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.6
Shader Model
-
