Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon RX 6900
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
Radeon RX 6900
27642
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon RX 6900
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
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
2105 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
23,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
255 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
606.2
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.5
Vulkan
1.3
1.2