Radeon R9 280X2 and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison

Radeon R9 280X2

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

3x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

2815 MHz

Core clock speed

2610 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

375 Watt

107 Watt

Texture fill rate

128.0

180.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

6 GB/s

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

143.9 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.3