Radeon RX 6500 XT and PG506-242 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 6500 XT

PG506-242

Architecture

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Navi 24

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

2815 MHz

1440 MHz

Core clock speed

2610 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

5,400 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

107 Watt

165 Watt

Texture fill rate

180.2

322.6

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

3072 Bit

Memory clock speed

18000 MHz

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

143.9 GB/s

933.1 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

CUDA

-

8.0

OpenCL

2.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.6

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

N/A