AMD Radeon RX 6500 Series GPUs With Navi 23 Detailed – Expected To Feature Up To 2048 Cores, 8 GB Memory & Tackle NVIDIA RTX 3060 at 1080p

 

It looks like new information on AMD's Radeon RX 6500 series graphics cards which will be based on the Navi 23 RDNA 2 GPU has leaked out. The details come from a reputable leaker & also insider, KittyYYuko, who has a flawless history of posting GPU leaks several months before launch as we've seen with his Ampere leaks.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 Series Graphics Cards Based on Navi 23 GPU To Feature Up To 2048 Cores, 8 GB Memory, 96 MB Infinity Cache & 1080p Premium Gaming Performance To Tackle RTX 3060 in April

According to the details, AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards based on the Navi 23 RDNA 2 GPU are indeed in the works. The Navi 23 GPU will be the third chip within the Navi 2X family and is the smallest of the bunch with a die size reported at around 236mm2. The Navi 23 GPUs will most probably be utilized by the Radeon RX 6500 series graphics cards since the RX 6600 XT is expected to utilize a 192-bit bus interface which is only possible with the Navi 22 GPU.

So the lineup is going to replace the Radeon RX 5500 series which were based on the Navi 14 GPU. Navi 14 measured at 158mm2 which means that we are looking at a die size increase of around 50%. The Navi 23 GPU is also internally referred to as 'Dimgray Cavefish' which is a codename we heard last year.

Moving on, it is reported that the AMD Radeon RX 6500 series graphics cards with the Navi 23 GPU will feature up to 32 compute units so that's a total of 2048 stream processors & 32 raytracing units inside the GPU package. The GPU will also be packed with 64 MB of Infinity Cache which will help it boost its bandwidth by a huge margin. For memory, we are looking at up to 8 GB GDDR6 capacity that will operate across a 128-bit bus interface and offer pin speeds of up to 16 Gbps. This should bring the total bandwidth to 256 GB/s.

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series "RDNA 2" Graphics Card Lineup:

Graphics Card	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT	AMD Radeon RX 6700	AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT	AMD Radeon RX 6800	AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
GPU	Navi 23?	Navi 22?	Navi 22 (XL?)	Navi 22 (XT?)	Navi 21 XL	Navi 21 XT	Navi 21 XTX
Process Node	7nm	7nm	7nm	7nm	7nm	7nm	7nm
Die Size	236mm2?	336mm2?	336mm2	336mm2	520mm2	520mm2	520mm2
Transistors	TBA	17.2 Billion?	17.2 Billion	17.2 Billion	26.8 Billion	26.8 Billion	26.8 Billion
Compute Units	32	TBA	TBA	40	60	72	80
Stream Processors	2048	TBA	TBA	2560	3840	4608	5120
TMUs/ROPs	TBA	TBA	TBA	160/64	240 / 96	288 / 128	320 / 128
Game Clock	TBA	TBA	TBA	2424 MHz	1815 MHz	2015 MHz	2015 MHz
Boost Clock	TBA	TBA	TBA	2581 MHz	2105 MHz	2250 MHz	2250 MHz
FP32 TFLOPs	TBA	TBA	TBA	13.21 TFLOPs	16.17 TFLOPs	20.74 TFLOPs	23.04 TFLOPs
Memory Size	8 GB GDDR6 + 64 MB Infinity Cache?	12 GB GDDR6 + 96 MB Infinity Cache?	6-12 GB GDDR6 + 96 MB Infinity Cache?	12 GB GDDR6 + 96 MB Infinity Cache	16 GB GDDR6 +128 MB Infinity Cache	16 GB GDDR6 +128 MB Infinity Cache	16 GB GDDR6 +128 MB Infinity Cache
Memory Bus	128-bit?	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	16 Gbps?	14 Gbps?	14 Gbps?	16 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Bandwidth	256 GB/s?	320 GB/s	320 GB/s	384 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s	512 GB/s
TDP	TBA	TBA	TBA	230W	250W	300W	300W
Price	TBA	TBA	TBA	$479 US	$579 US	$649 US	$999 US

As for products, once again nothing is mentioned except the fact that the Navi 23 GPU-based AMD Radeon RX 6500 series (referring to the RX 6500 XT) will be positioned as a premium 1080p gaming solution, offering faster performance than the RTX 3060. The pricing is suggested around 2499 CNY which ends up around $350 US. Now that's quite expensive if we look at where the RX 5500 XT was. We also aren't sure if the pricing would work considering the RX 6700 XT costs $479 US and the RX 6700 would end up close to $399 US. The RX 6600 XT also exists and would end up in the sub $400 US segment.

Source: wccftech