GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC vs AMD Radeon RX 5600
            GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC
            
                $170
            
        
    
            AMD Radeon RX 5600
            
                
            
        
    | 1024 Shaders 4GB GDDR6 2825MHz | 2048 Shaders 6GB GDDR6 1560MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 11.57 TFLOPS FP16 | Peak AI Performance 12.78 TFLOPS FP16 | 
| FP32 5.79 TFLOPS | FP32 6.39 TFLOPS | 
| FP16 11.57 TFLOPS | FP16 12.78 TFLOPS | 
| Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | 
| TDP 107W | TDP 150W | 
| Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin - - - | Power Connectors - 1x 8-Pin - - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
                                            
                                                GB6 Metal 75,390
                                            
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| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL 53,340 17% | GB5 OpenCL 53,670 18% | 
| GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal 44,955 25% | 
| GB5 Vulkan 40,335 20% | GB5 Vulkan 37,455 18% | 
| OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal 75 13% | OCT Metal 130 22% | 
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                                            360 GFLOPS
                                            
                                                
                                            
                                         
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| Pixel
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                                            90.4 GPixel/s
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                                            99.84 GPixel/s
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| Texture
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                                            180.8 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
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                                            199.68 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerGIGABYTE | ManufacturerAMD | 
| Chip DesignerAMD | Chip DesignerAMD | 
| ArchitectureRDNA 2 | ArchitectureRDNA 1 | 
| FamilyRadeon RX 6000 | FamilyRadeon RX 5000 | 
| Codename Beige Goby Navi 24 Variant Navi 24 XT | Codename Gaming Navi 10 Variant Navi 10 XE | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 1/19/2022 | Release Date 1/21/2020 | 
| Foundry TSMC - | Foundry TSMC - | 
| Fabrication Node N6 - | Fabrication Node N7 - | 
| Die Size 107 mm² - | Die Size 251 mm² - | 
| Transistor Count 5.4 Billion - | Transistor Count 10.3 Billion - | 
| Transistor Density 50.47M/mm² - | Transistor Density 41.04M/mm² - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 1024 Shaders - | Shading Units 2048 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 64 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 128 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 32 ROPs | Render Output Units 64 ROPs | 
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| Ray-Tracing Cores 16 RT-Cores | - - | 
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| Compute Units 16 CUs | Compute Units 32 CUs | 
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| Graphics Processing Clusters 1 GPC | Graphics Processing Clusters 4 GPCs | 
| - - 2610MHz Base 2825MHz | - - 1375MHz Base 1560MHz | 
| L0 32KB/WGP | L0 32KB/WGP | 
| L1 - - - 128KB/Array | L1 - - - 128KB/Array | 
| L2 1MB Shared | L2 3MB Shared | 
| L3 16MB Shared 0.42TB/s | - - - | 
| 4GB GDDR6 - | 6GB GDDR6 - | 
| Bus Width 64Bit | Bus Width 192Bit | 
| Clock 2250MHz Transfer Rate 18GT/s Bandwidth 144GB/s | Clock 1500MHz Transfer Rate 12GT/s Bandwidth 288GB/s | 
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| TDP 107W | TDP 150W | 
| Temp 110°C Max | Temp 110°C Max | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.1 - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3x DisplayPort 1.4 - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 2.0 - - - | 
| Max Resolution 7680x4320 | Max Resolution 7680x4320 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 120Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 120Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate - FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate - FreeSync - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 2 | Multi Monitor Support 4 | 
| Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | Content Protection HDCP 2.3 | 
| No Encoders - | Model VCN 2.0 | 
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Model VCN 3.0 | Model VCN 2.0 | 
| Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 - VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - AV1 - - | Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 JPEG VC-1 - VP9 - AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) - - - - | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_2 | Direct X 12 Direct 3D 12_1 | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 2.2 Vulkan 1.3 | OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 2.1 Vulkan 1.2 | 
| Shader Model 6.6 - - GFX 10.3 - - - - | Shader Model 6.5 - - GFX 10.1 - - - - | 
| - - - 3x Fans | - - - 2x Fans | 
| Power Connectors - - 1x 6-Pin - - - - | Power Connectors - - - 1x 8-Pin - - - | 
| Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 4 | Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 4.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | 
| Multi GPU Support Supported Type Bridgeless | Multi GPU Support Supported Type Bridgeless | 
| Height 114 mm (4.49 in) Width 282 mm (11.1 in) Depth 40 mm (1.57 in) | - - - - - - | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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