AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Mar 2014
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2000 MHz
827 MHz
Boost Clock
2400 MHz
933 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
64bit
384bit
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
16
28
Shading Units
1024
1792
TMUs
64
112
ROPs
32
32
RT Cores
16
—
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
768 KB
L3 Cache
16 MB
—
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
76.80 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
153.6 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
9.830 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
4.915 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
307.2 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 24
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Navi 24 XM
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
6 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
107 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
50W
200W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.