Radeon RX 6500 XT
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($199) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Owners like it for low-power 1080p gaming without breaking the bank. The usual gripe is the limited memory bus and lack of video encoding hurt performance and features.
- Handles modern games at medium settings
- Runs cool and quiet under load
- Small enough for compact builds
- Works fine for 1080p gaming
- Only 4GB VRAM limits modern games
- No AV1 hardware video encoding support
- Weak memory bus hurts high resolution
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 1,024
- RT Cores
- 16
- TMUs
- 64
- ROPs
- 32
- L2 cache
- 1024 MB
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 64-bit
- Bandwidth
- 143.9 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 2248 MHz
- Base clock
- 2610 MHz
- Boost clock
- 2815 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 5.765 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 5.765 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 90 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 180.2 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 107W
- Suggested PSU
- 200W
- Power connectors
- 1x 6-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x4
- Slot width
- 2-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.6
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.2
- Vulkan
- 1.3
Our verdict on the RX 6500 XT
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is a budget graphics card crippled by its tiny 4GB memory buffer and missing hardware encoding.
Get it if you're on a super tight budget and only play esports titles at 108p, where it's fine for the price. Skip it if you want to play modern games or do any creative work, because the limited memory and bus cripple performance badly.
Buy it if…
- Buy it if you’re building a very cheap, small-form-factor gaming PC.
- Buy it if you need a basic GPU for a prebuilt office machine upgrade.
- Buy it if you only play esports titles at medium settings.
Its place in the overall top
551 votes