Radeon 8500 XT and Radeon RX 6600 XT - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 XT

Radeon RX 6600 XT

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R250

Navi 23

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

June 2002

July 2021

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2589 MHz

Core clock speed

300 MHz

1968 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

11,060 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

25 Watt

160 (TGP) Watt

Texture fill rate

2.400

331.4

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

600 MBps

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

9.6 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

8.1

12.0 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

N/A

2.1

OpenGL

1.4

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2