Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison

Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Architecture

GCN 1.1 (2014)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Beema/Mullins

Navi 24

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

April 2014

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

686 MHz

2815 MHz

Core clock speed

350 MHz

2610 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

107 Watt

Texture fill rate

180.2

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

143.9 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (FL 12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

1.3