Radeon RX 6500 XT: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon RX 6500 XT provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 21.70% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 6500 XT sales 19 January 2022 at a recommended price of $199. This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 2.0 architecture and made with 6 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 143.9 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 107 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 6500 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking267
Place by popularity62
Cost-effectiveness evaluation48.84
Power efficiency16.34of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)
GPU code nameNavi 24
Market segmentDesktop
Release date19 January 2022 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 6500 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 6500 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1024of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed2610 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed2815 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors5,400 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology6 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)107 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate180.2of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power5.765 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs64of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores16of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
L0 Cache256 KBof 3 MB (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
L1 Cache256 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache1024 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L3 Cache16 MBof 256 MB (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 6500 XT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 6500 XT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed2248 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth143.9 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Shared memory-
Resizable BAR+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 6500 XT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon RX 6500 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.6
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.2
Vulkan1.3

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 6500 XT. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RX 6500 XT
21.70

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RX 6500 XT 9597
Samples: 2436

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RX 6500 XT 22954

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RX 6500 XT 76445

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RX 6500 XT 15712

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 6500 XT 91909

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 6500 XT 356129

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 6500 XT is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD63
1440p31
4K17

Cost per frame, $

1080p3.16
1440p6.42
4K11.71

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 281
Cyberpunk 2077 72
Hogwarts Legacy 80

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 90−95
Counter-Strike 2 194
Cyberpunk 2077 54
Far Cry 5 102
Fortnite 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
Forza Horizon 5 107
Hogwarts Legacy 60
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 90−95
Valorant 160−170

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 90−95
Counter-Strike 2 82
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 250−260
Cyberpunk 2077 34
Dota 2 145
Far Cry 5 92
Fortnite 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
Forza Horizon 5 81
Grand Theft Auto V 86
Hogwarts Legacy 48
Metro Exodus 52
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 90−95
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 92
Valorant 160−170

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 90−95
Cyberpunk 2077 30
Dota 2 110
Far Cry 5 86
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
Hogwarts Legacy 33
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 90−95
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 54
Valorant 160−170

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 110−120

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 35
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 160−170
Grand Theft Auto V 37
Metro Exodus 18
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 200−210

1440p
Ultra

Battlefield 5 65−70
Cyberpunk 2077 17
Far Cry 5 57
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
Hogwarts Legacy 23
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 35−40

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 55−60

4K
High

Counter-Strike 2 7
Grand Theft Auto V 34
Hogwarts Legacy 14−16
Metro Exodus 11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 28
Valorant 130−140

4K
Ultra

Battlefield 5 35−40
Counter-Strike 2 21−24
Cyberpunk 2077 4
Dota 2 67
Far Cry 5 23
Forza Horizon 4 40−45
Hogwarts Legacy 9
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 24−27

4K
Epic

Fortnite 24−27

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 6500 XT's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 6500 XT is GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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