Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce 315 OEM

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce 315 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Feb 2011
GeForce 315 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6500 XT

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider GeForce 315 OEM

74 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 6500 XT .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce 315 OEM
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsGT218 (GT218-300-B1)
Fab Process6 nmvs40 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs260 million
Shaders1024vs16
Compute Units16vs2
Core clock2200 MHzvs589 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs64vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce 315 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR6vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs600 MHz
1200 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce 315 OEM
TDP107 wattsvs33 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs22 Feb 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • GeForce 315 OEM
    2.36 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 315 OEM
    4.71 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 315 OEM
    9.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 315 OEM
    44.86 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better