GeForce PCX 5950 and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison

GeForce PCX 5950

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Architecture

Rankine (2003−2005)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

NV38

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2004

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

2815 MHz

Core clock speed

475 MHz

2610 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

135 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

57 Watt

107 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.800

180.2

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

850 MHz

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

27.2 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

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3