AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs AMD FireStream 9270

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500M and AMD FireStream 9270 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

AMD FireStream 9270

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 750 MHz
5120x more texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 30 GTexel / s
Around 28% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 800
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 55 nm
3.2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 160 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7608 vs 1341

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 13 November 2008
Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s vs 30 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 800
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 160 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	7608 vs 1341

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9270

Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 473 vs 384

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	473 vs 384

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9270

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

384

473

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7608

1341

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	AMD FireStream 9270
PassMark - G2D Mark	384	473
PassMark - G3D Mark	7608	1341
Geekbench - OpenCL	39072

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	AMD FireStream 9270
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	Navi 24	RV770
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	13 November 2008
Place in performance rating	292	294
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	750 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	55 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.915 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	800
Pixel fill rate	76.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s	30 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	160 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	956 million
Floating-point performance		1,200.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	10.1
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5