Radeon RX 5500 XT and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon RX 5500 XT
9430
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 14 XTX
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2019
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1845 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
2610 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
6,400 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
162.4
180.2
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224.0 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.0
2.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3