AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 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 7900 XT 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (20GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 18% (2815MHz vs 2394MHz)
Lower TDP (107W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+792%
51.48 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6500 XT
5.765 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+441%
26829
Radeon RX 6500 XT
4953
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+475%
13130
Radeon RX 6500 XT
2280
3DMark Speed Way
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+2880%
5364
Radeon RX 6500 XT
180
Blender
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+583%
3905
Radeon RX 6500 XT
571
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+580%
102
Radeon RX 6500 XT
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+561%
205
Radeon RX 6500 XT
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+536%
299
Radeon RX 6500 XT
47
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+257%
50
Radeon RX 6500 XT
14
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+394%
94
Radeon RX 6500 XT
19
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+409%
158
Radeon RX 6500 XT
31
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+466%
170
Radeon RX 6500 XT
30
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+295%
170
Radeon RX 6500 XT
43
GTA 5 1080p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
+97%
190
Radeon RX 6500 XT
96
Graphics Card
Nov 2022
Release Date
Jan 2022
Navi III
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1387 MHz
Base Clock
2310 MHz
2394 MHz
Boost Clock
2815 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
2248 MHz
Memory
20GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
320bit
Memory Bus
64bit
800.0GB/s
Bandwidth
143.9GB/s
Render Config
84
Compute Units
16
-
-
-
5376
Shading Units
1024
336
TMUs
64
192
ROPs
32
-
-
-
84
RT Cores
16
256 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
6 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
80 MB
L3 Cache
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
459.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
90.08 GPixel/s
804.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
180.2 GTexel/s
103.0 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
11.53 TFLOPS
51.48 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.765 TFLOPS
1.609 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
107W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1a
2x DisplayPort 2.1
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 31
GPU Name
Navi 24
Navi 31 XT
(215-145000156)
GPU Variant
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
RDNA 3.0
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
6 nm
57.7 billion
Transistors
5.4 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
107 mm²
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
-
-
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
