Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon R7 265 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon R7 265
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Navi 24
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2022
February 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
925 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
1,894 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
59.20
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Vulkan
1.3
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-