AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 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 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (2815MHz vs 1560MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +24%

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

Radeon RX 5600 XT +56%

7703

Blender

Radeon RX 6500 XT

587

Radeon RX 5600 XT +304%

2376

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Radeon RX 5600 XT +106%

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 5600 XT +106%

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Radeon RX 5600 XT +110%

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Radeon RX 5600 XT +74%

47

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Radeon RX 5600 XT +76%

92

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

Radeon RX 5600 XT +81%

125

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

Radeon RX 5600 XT +66%

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

Radeon RX 5600 XT +41%

61

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

Radeon RX 5600 XT +77%

170

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2020

Navi II

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

36

1024

Shading Units

2304

64

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Navi 10

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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