AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 380

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and AMD Radeon R9 380 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 2.9x more boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 970 MHz
  • 1659.3x more texture fill rate: 180.2 GTexel/s vs 108.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 78% lower typical power consumption: 107 Watt vs 190 Watt
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 970 MHz
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 812 vs 653
  • Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9583 vs 6081
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 Jan 2022 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed 2815 MHz vs 970 MHz
Texture fill rate 180.2 GTexel/s vs 108.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 107 Watt vs 190 Watt
Memory clock speed 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 970 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 812 vs 653
PassMark - G3D Mark 9583 vs 6081

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 380

  • Around 75% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1024
  • Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 76397 vs 48727
  • 11.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2791 vs 235
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 1792 vs 1024
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 76397 vs 48727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2791 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 380

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
812
653
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9583
6081
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
48727
76397
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
235
2791
Name AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon R9 380
PassMark - G2D Mark 812 653
PassMark - G3D Mark 9583 6081
Geekbench - OpenCL 48727 76397
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 235 2791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 58.135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1503.633
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7635
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7635
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon R9 380

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Navi 24 Antigua
Launch date 19 Jan 2022 18 June 2015
Place in performance rating 216 370
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Price now $264.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 31.71

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2815 MHz 970 MHz
Compute units 16 28
Core clock speed 2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.765 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1024 1792
Pixel fill rate 90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 180.2 GTexel/s 108.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 107 Watt 190 Watt
Transistor count 5400 million 5,000 million
Floating-point performance 3,476 gflops
Stream Processors 1792

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Full Height / Full Length Dual Slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2 x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 221 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 2.2 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 143.9 GB/s 182.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 970 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore