ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition
vs
ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition and the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and has 1024 texture shaders and 16 execution units.

ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is based on AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU), which has 2304 shaders and 36 execution units.
ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition GPU ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU)
Navi 24 XT GPU Chip Polaris 20 XT
RDNA 2 Architecture GCN 4
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
1024 Shader 2304
32 Render Output Units 32
64 Texture Units 144
16 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 144 GB/s.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G can access 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.250 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
18.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
144 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
64 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition clocks in the base with up to 2.200 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is 1.257 GHz.

2.200 GHz Base Clock 1.257 GHz
2.825 GHz Boost Clock 1.360 GHz
2.69 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.34 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is 107 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin connector.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G has a TDP of 185 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

107 W TDP 185 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 2 screens can be connected to the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

2 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is 250 mm long, 147 mm high and 54 mm wide.

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G is 242 mm long, 129 mm high and 38 mm wide.

250 mm Length 242 mm
147 mm Height 129 mm
54 mm Width 38 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 4 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition was released in Q1/2022 at a price of 199 $ (Reference).

The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 580 8G was introduced in Q4/2017 at a price of 229 $.

TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING Part-no DUAL-RX580-8G
Q1/2022 Release date Q4/2017
199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 229 $
6 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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