Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Oct 2018
Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6500 XT

43 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 580 2048SP .
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 580 2048SP

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 580 2048SP

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 580 2048SP
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsPolaris 20 (Polaris 20 XL
(215-0910052))
Fab Process6 nmvs14 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs244 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders1024vs2048
Compute Units16vs32
Core clock2200 MHzvs1168 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 580 2048SP
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon RX 580 2048SP
TDP107 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs15 Oct 2018

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    41.09 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    164.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    224.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    5259.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better