AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7900

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7900, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points
156% significantly better overall score
1178 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

64 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
23 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
32996 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
33694 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
31425 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
32351 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586
252nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Radeon HD 7900 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 7900 in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is faster than the Radeon HD 7900.

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