Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce 505 OEM

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce 505 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Feb 2013
GeForce 505 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 505 OEM

82 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 505 OEM
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsGT216 ()
Fab Process6 nmvs40 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs100 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs486 million
Shaders1024vs24
Compute Units16vs1
Core clock2200 MHzvs615 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs64vs12

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce 505 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR6vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce 505 OEM
TDP107 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs17 Feb 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • GeForce 505 OEM
    4.92 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 505 OEM
    7.38 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 505 OEM
    22.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 505 OEM
    49.49 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better