Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 5950 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon RX 5950
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 24
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2022
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Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
1535 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
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Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
21,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
4864
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
466.6
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
24 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
672.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL
2.2
-
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
-
Vulkan
1.3
-