Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3

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 8400 GS Rev. 3

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8400 GS Rev. 3
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsGT218 (8400GS-225-B1)
Fab Process6 nmvs40 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs57 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs260 million
Shaders1024vs16
Compute Units16vs2
Core clock2200 MHzvs520 MHz
ROPs32vs4
TMUs64vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
Memory TypeGDDR6vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs400 MHz
800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTGeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
TDP107 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs12 Jul 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
    2.08 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
    4.16 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
    6.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 3
    39.36 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better