Xbox Series X GPU vs Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking973not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.01no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameCarrizoScarlett
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)10 November 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3843328
Core clock speedno data1825 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1725 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million15,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data379.6
Floating-point processing powerno data12.15 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data208

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataIGP
Lengthno data301 mm
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data10 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data560.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 200 Watt

R6 (Carrizo) has 1566.7% lower power consumption.

Xbox Series X GPU, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and Xbox Series X GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R6 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while Xbox Series X GPU is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
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