Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon HD 2900 XTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock2815MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (107W vs 240W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6500 XT
+1111%
5765
Radeon HD 2900 XTX
476
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Unknown
Navi II
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
-
2815 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2248 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
106.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
4
1024
Shading Units
320
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.89 GPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.89 GTexel/s
11.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.765 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
475.5 GFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
107W
TDP
240W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 24
GPU Name
R600
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
GPU Variant
R600 XTX A11
(215RGMDKA11FG)
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.4 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
107 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
2.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
