Radeon RX 6500 XT and RTX A500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 6500 XT vs RTX A500
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
RTX A500
6995
Radeon RX 6500 XT
RTX A500
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 24
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2022
November 2021
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
113.3
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
Vulkan
1.3
1.3