AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Unknown
Jan 2022
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Navi II
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
950 MHz
2310 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
2815 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
2248 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
64bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
143.9GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
16
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
RT Cores
—
16
L3 Cache
—
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
90.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
5.765 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
11.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 24
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Navi 24 XT(215-135000006)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
107 mm²
Board Design
TDP
375W
107W
Suggested PSU
750 W
300 W
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.