GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G
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GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G has 1024 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.82 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.77 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.85 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G GPU GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Based on AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
Navi 24 XT GPU Chip Navi 14 XTX
RDNA 2 Architecture RDNA 1
16 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
1024 Shader 1408
32 Render Output Units 32
64 Texture Units 88
16 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.250 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.250 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
18.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
144 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
64 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G has a turbo clock of 2.815 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G is 1.845 GHz.

2.200 GHz Base Clock 1.647 GHz
2.815 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
2.61 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.72 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G has 1 x 6-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 97 °C.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

107 W TDP 130 W
-- TDP (up) --
97 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 6-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 80 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 41 dB

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

2 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

192 mm Length 225 mm
117 mm Height 119 mm
38 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 4 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 6 nanometer process, GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6500 XT EAGLE 4G was released in Q1/2022.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

GV-R65XTEAGLE-4GD Part-no GV-R55XTD6-4GD
Q1/2022 Release date Q3/2019
199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 169 $ (Reference)
6 nm Structure size 7 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.

2560x1440 (1440p)

GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5500 XT D6 4G
4 GB GDDR6
20 fps (avg)

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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