AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon Vega 7

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and AMD Radeon Vega 7 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.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon Vega 7

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Around 48% higher boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 1900 MHz
2.3x more pipelines: 1024 vs 448
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 7 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Boost clock speed	2815 MHz vs 1900 MHz
Pipelines	1024 vs 448
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 7 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

5.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1262 vs 235

Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1262 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega 7

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

235

1262

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon Vega 7
PassMark - G2D Mark	812
PassMark - G3D Mark	9583
Geekbench - OpenCL	48727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	235	1262

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon Vega 7
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Vega
Code name	Navi 24	Renoir
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	Q1'2020
Place in performance rating	216	1044
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	1900 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	7 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	448
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Number of simultaneous displays		3
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6
Technologies
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