AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 76% (2815MHz vs 1600MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +127%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +43%

7078

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

Blender

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +26%

742

Radeon RX 6500 XT

587

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Radeon Pro

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

16

4096

Shading Units

1024

256

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Navi 24

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

107W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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