Radeon RX 6500 XT vs ATI Rage 128 VR

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated216
Place by popularitynot in top-10082
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data58.32
Power efficiencyno data16.73
Architectureno dataRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRage 128Navi 24
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 August 1998 (26 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 coresno data1024
Core clock speed80 MHz2610 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2815 MHz
Number of transistors8 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology250 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data107 Watt
Texture fill rate0.16180.2
Floating-point processing powerno data5.765 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs264
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).

InterfaceAGP 2xPCIe 4.0 x4
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed125 MHz2248 MHz
Memory bandwidth1 GB/s143.9 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 VGA1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLNone2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 August 1998 19 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 250 nm 6 nm

RX 6500 XT has an age advantage of 23 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 4066.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Rage 128 VR and Radeon RX 6500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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