Radeon RX 6500 XT vs HD 6970M Rebrand

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated220
Place by popularitynot in top-10082
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data58.67
Power efficiencyno data15.90
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBroadwayNavi 24
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)19 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores8001024
Core clock speed800 MHz2610 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2815 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt107 Watt
Texture fill rate32.00180.2
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPS5.765 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4064
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x4
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2248 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s143.9 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 19 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 107 Watt

HD 6970M Rebrand has 42.7% lower power consumption.

RX 6500 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and Radeon RX 6500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6500 XT is a desktop one.


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