Radeon R9 295X2 and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 295X2 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon R9 295X2
8876
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
Radeon R9 295X2
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Vesuvius
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
January 2022
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
2 x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1018 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
-
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 5,733 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
500 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
179.2
180.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-