GeForce 6500 and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6500 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce 6500
39
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
GeForce 6500
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
400 MHz
2610 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
-
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
180.2
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
N/A
2.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3