Radeon HD 2900 XT and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 2900 XT vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
R600
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2007
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
743 MHz
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
475.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
720 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
215 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.89
180.2
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
106.0 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
N/A
2.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3