Radeon RX 6500 vs RX 6900 XTX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	273
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)	no data
GPU code name	Navi 21	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	28 October 2020 (4 years ago)	no data (2024 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 cores	5120	no data
Core clock speed	2075 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2435 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	26,800 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	330 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	779.2	no data
Floating-point processing power	24.93 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	128	no data
TMUs	320	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	80	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	no data
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR6	no data
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	no data
Memory bus width	256 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	576.0 GB/s	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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C	no data
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.1	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-

Pros & cons summary

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