Switch GPU and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison

Switch GPU

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM20B

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

January 2022

Interface

IGP

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

768 MHz

2815 MHz

Core clock speed

-

2610 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

20 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2,000 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

107 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.29

180.2

Memory type

DDR4

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

3200 MHz

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

143.9 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.3

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.6

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3