GeForce 6500 vs Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking662not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 2 (2022−2023)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameRaphaelNV44 A2
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date26 September 2022 (2 years ago)1 October 2005 (19 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores128no data
Core clock speedno data400 MHz
Boost clock speed2200 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data75 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm110 nm
Texture fill rateno data1.600
ROPsno data2
TMUsno data4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data266 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8.512 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_29.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 September 2022 1 October 2005
Chip lithography 6 nm 110 nm

Graphics (Ryzen 7000) has an age advantage of 16 years, and a 1733.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000) and GeForce 6500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000) is a notebook card while GeForce 6500 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
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