Radeon HD 6930 and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6930

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cayman

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

December 2011

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

-

2815 MHz

Core clock speed

750 MHz

2610 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,920.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

186 Watt

107 Watt

Texture fill rate

60.00

180.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

143.9 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

+

+

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3