Radeon VII and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon VII vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon VII
17191
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
Radeon VII
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Vega 20
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2019
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1750 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
2610 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
13,230 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
420.0
180.2
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
1024 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.0
2.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3