Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Air Cooled vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT. Specifications, performance, tests

Comparison of basic technical data of graphics cards Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Air Cooled and AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, chip, information processing units.

• GPU Chip
  Navi 21 Navi 24
• Execution units
  80 16
• Shader
  5120 1024
• Render Output Units
  128 32
• Texture Units
  320 64

Comparison of the amount of memory on board graphics cards. The more the better.

• Memory Size
  16 GB 4 GB
• Memory Type
  GDDR6 GDDR6
• Memory Speed
  2 GHz 2.25 GHz

Let's compare the memory frequency of graphics cards Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Air Cooled and AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT. The higher the better.

• Base Clock
  1.825 GHz 2.200 GHz
• Boost Clock
  2.425 GHz+ 8 % 2.815 GHz
• Avg (Game) Clock
  2.235 GHz+ 11 % 2.610 GHz

Connectors, the number of thermal watts emitted in normal mode and at overclocking.

• TDP
  400 W+ 33 % 107 W

Technical data that is used to its full potential in computer games.

• Max. resolution
  7680x4320 7680x4320
• DirectX
  12_2 12.2
• Raytracing
  Yes Yes
• DLSS / FSR
  No No

Built-in support for video and image compression standards.

• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode
• h265 / HEVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode
• AV1
  Decode No

Comparison of interfaces and release dates for GPU AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Air Cooled.

• GPU Interface
  PCIe 4.0 x 16 PCIe 4.0 x 4
• Release date
  Q3/2021 Q1/2022
• Structure size
  7 nm 6 nm