Radeon RX 6500 XT and RTX A40 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6500 XT
RTX A40
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 24
GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2022
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
1755 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
589.7
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
14.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
695.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.5
Vulkan
1.3
1.2