Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega Raven Ridge

Navi 24

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2017

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1200 MHz

2815 MHz

Core clock speed

2610 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

107 Watt

Texture fill rate

180.2

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

143.9 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

Vulkan

1.3