Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon RX 560

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon RX 560
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 560

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 Radeon RX 560

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 560

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 560

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 560
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsBaffin (Baffin XT)
Fab Process6 nmvs14 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders1024vs1024
Compute Units16vs16
Core clock2200 MHzvs1090 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 560
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 560
TDP107 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs1 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 560
    19.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 560
    76.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 560
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 560
    2457.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better