AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Around 68% higher boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 1677 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 14 nm
3.2x lower typical power consumption: 107 Watt vs 345 Watt
Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1890 MHz

Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs 7 August 2017
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz vs 1677 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt vs 345 Watt
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

2.4x more texture fill rate: 429.30 GTexel/s vs 180.2 GTexel/s
4x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1024
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB

Texture fill rate	429.30 GTexel/s vs 180.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines	4096 vs 1024
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
PassMark - G2D Mark	812
PassMark - G3D Mark	9583
Geekbench - OpenCL	48727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	235
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3362

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 5.0
Code name	Navi 24	Vega 10
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	7 August 2017
Place in performance rating	216	215
Design		Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	1677 MHz
Compute units	16	64
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1406 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)	840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)	26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.765 TFLOPS	13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines	1024	4096
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s	107.30 GP/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s	429.30 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	345 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	12,500 million
Floating-point performance		13.7 TFLOPs
Render output units		64
Stream Processors		4096
Texture Units		256
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt	1000 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 8-pin
Length		282 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	2.2	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s	483.8 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	2048 bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore