ROG Ally Extreme GPU vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking220not rated
Place by popularity83not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation58.69no data
Power efficiency15.91no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 24Phoenix
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 January 2022 (2 years ago)13 June 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 $699

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 cores1024768
Core clock speed2610 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed2815 MHz2700 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)107 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate180.2129.6
Floating-point processing power5.765 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6448
Ray Tracing Cores1612

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 x4no data
Lengthno data280 mm
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6LPDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2248 MHz1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.9 GB/s51.2 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.22.1
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2022 13 June 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 107 Watt 30 Watt

ROG Ally Extreme GPU has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 50% more advanced lithography process, and 256.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500 XT and ROG Ally Extreme GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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