AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
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Key differences
- •NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 has higher Tensor / AI cores (680 vs 0)
- •NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 has higher Shading cores (21,760 vs 1,024)
- •NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 has higher Memory bandwidth (1792 GB/s vs 144 GB/s)
- •NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 has higher RT cores (170 vs 16)
- •NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 has higher VRAM (32 GB vs 4 GB)
Full spec comparison
Spec
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
Performance
VRAM4 GB32 GB▲
Memory typeGDDR6GDDR7
Memory bus width64 bit512 bit▲
Memory bandwidth144 GB/s1792 GB/s▲
Shading cores1,02421,760▲
RT cores16170▲
Tensor / AI cores0680▲
Base clock2310 MHz▲2010 MHz
Boost clock2815 MHz▲2410 MHz
Ray tracingYesYes
Upscaling techFSR 2DLSS 4 (Multi Frame Generation)
Power & Size
TDP107 W▲575 W
Recommended PSU400 W▲1000 W
Power connector1× 6-pin1× 16-pin (12V-2x6)
Bus interfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 5.0 x16
Card length190 mm▲304 mm
Slot width2 slots▲2.5 slots
Display outputs1× DisplayPort 1.4, 1× HDMI 2.13× DisplayPort 2.1b, 1× HDMI 2.1b