GeForce FX 5600 XT and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
GeForce FX 5600 XT
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Rankine (2003−2005)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
NV31
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2003
January 2022
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
235 MHz
2610 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
80 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
-
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
0.94
180.2
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
400 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.4 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
9.0a
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
N/A
2.2
OpenGL
1.5 (2.1)
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3