Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon Vega 8

Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Jan 2022
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8

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 Vega 8

42 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 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon Vega 8
GPU NameNavi 24 (Navi 24 XT)vsRaven Ridge ()
Fab Process6 nmvs14 nm
Die Size107 mm²vs210 mm²
Transistors5,400 millionvs4,940 million
Shaders1024vs512
Compute Units16vs8
Core clock2200 MHzvs300 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon Vega 8
Memory TypeGDDR6vsSystem Shared
Bus Width64 bitvsSystem Shared
Memory Speed2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
vsSystem Shared
Memory Size4096 Mbvs0 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6500 XTRadeon Vega 8
TDP107 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date19 Jan 2022vs13 Feb 2018

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    90.08 GP/s
  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    180.20 GT/s
  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6500 XT
    5765.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better