Radeon HD 7870 XT and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
180.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3