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Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 560 has core clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which uses a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
Radeon RX 6500 XT 107 Watts
Difference: 27 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6500 XT, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon RX 560 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 147456 MB/sec
Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 32768 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is quite a bit (about 87%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 560. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 65600 (87%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 70400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 51600 (274%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 560 Radeon RX 6500 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year May 2017 January 2022
Code Name Baffin Navi 24 XT
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1175 MHz 2200 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 4500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 80 watts 107 watts
Bandwidth 114688 MB/sec 147456 MB/sec
Texel Rate 75200 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 18800 Mpixels/sec 70400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 1024
Texture Mapping Units 64 64
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 6 nm
Transistors 3000 million 5400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon RX 560

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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