Radeon RX 6500M vs ATI X300 SE HyperMemory

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated272
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.05
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV370Navi 24
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 October 2006 (18 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 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 coresno data1024
Core clock speed325 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2400 MHz
Number of transistors107 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate1.300153.6
Floating-point processing powerno data4.915 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs464
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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed300 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth4.8 GB/s144.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 October 2006 4 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 50 Watt

ATI X300 SE HyperMemory has 66.7% lower power consumption.

RX 6500M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1733.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory and Radeon RX 6500M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory is a desktop card while Radeon RX 6500M is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory
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