Radeon RX 6500 XT vs RX 5900 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated220
Place by popularitynot in top-10083
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data58.69
Power efficiencyno data15.91
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21Navi 24
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data19 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 cores43521024
Core clock speedno data2610 MHz
Boost clock speed1735 MHz2815 MHz
Number of transistors21,000 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt107 Watt
Texture fill rate471.9180.2
Floating-point processing power15.1 TFLOPS5.765 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs27264
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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz2248 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 107 Watt

RX 5900 XT has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 6500 XT, on the other hand, has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 180.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5900 XT and Radeon RX 6500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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