Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 5500 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Navi 24
Navi 14
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2022
October 2019
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
1845 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
6,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
162.4
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.5
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.131