Radeon 8500 XT and Radeon RX 6650 XT - video card comparison
Radeon 8500 XT
Radeon RX 6650 XT
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R250
Navi 23
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2002
May 2022
Interface
AGP 4x
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2635 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
2055 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
176 Watt
Texture fill rate
2.400
337.3
Memory type
DDR
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
17500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
9.6 GB/s
280.3 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
8.1
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
N/A
2.1
OpenGL
1.4
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.3