Cezanne-M vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	217	not rated
Place by popularity	83	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	58.43	no data
Power efficiency	17.01	no data
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Navi 24	Cezanne-M
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	19 January 2022 (2 years ago)	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	1024	512
Core clock speed	2610 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	5,400 million	9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	107 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	180.2	no data
Floating-point processing power	5.765 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	8
TMUs	64	32
Ray Tracing Cores	16	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no data

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 type	GDDR6	no data
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	no data
Memory bus width	64 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	-	no data

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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	no data
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.6	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.2	2.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

6 nm

7 nm

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