AMD Navi 24 comes with a high boost clock

This month we expect not one but three companies to unveil their entry-level discrete GPU. One of them is the upcoming Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card from AMD.

AMD Radeon RX 6500XT & RX 6400, Source: VideoCardz

As we have just learned, the RX 6500XT is to feature a boost clock of 2815 MHz with the game clock set to 2610 MHz by default, which is around 9% to 10% higher than RX 6600XT based on Navi 23.

The RX 6500XT and RX 6400 will both feature Navi 24, a new GPU that is manufactured using TSMC N6 process technology. This is the first GPU to utilize this node and possibly the last Navi 2X GPU before AMD moves Navi 22/23 to 6nm at some point in the future.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is to offer 1024 Stream Processors, up to 4GB GDDR6 memory across the 64-bit interface, and TDP at 107W. It will be the slowest desktop card to be offered by AMD board partners, with RX 6400 being an OEM-exclusive. As a side note, one of the spec sheets that we have seen mentions 18Gbps memory , while previous leaks suggested 16Gbps. A higher memory speed would increase the bandwidth to 144 GB/s. Update: this has been confirmed by leaker Greymon55 .

The most recent information suggests AMD will launch this card on January 19th, with an announcement expected tomorrow during the AMD news conference during CES 2022.

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series
VideoCardz	RX 6600 XT	RX 6600	RX 6500 XT	RX 6400
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Architecture	7nm RDNA2	7nm RDNA2	6nm RDNA2	6nm RDNA2
GPU	Navi 23 XT	Navi 23 XL	Navi 24 XT	Navi 24 XL
Cores	2048	1792	1024	768
Infinity Cache	32 MB	32 MB	16 MB	16 MB
Ray Accelerators	32	28	16	12
Game Clock	2359 MHz	2044 MHz	2610 MHz	TBC
Boost Clock	2589 MHz	2491 MHz	2815 MHz	TBC
Memory Clock	16 Gbps	14 Gbps	18 Gbps	16 Gbps
Memory	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	4 GB GDDR6	4 GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	128-bit	128-bit	64-bit	64-bit
Bandwidth	256 GB/s	224 GB/s	144 GB/s	128 GB/s
TBP	160W	132W	107W	53W
MSRP	379 USD	329 USD	TBC	OEM
Launch Date	August 2021	October 2021	January 2022	March 2022