Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Navi 24
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2022
November 2014
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
975 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
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
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
62.40
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
174.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2