AMD RX 6500 XT: technical specifications and performance

There is no doubt that the good thing about the PC is the fact that we can easily build a custom computer that meets our needs in terms of performance and budget. It is not necessary to buy a gaming computer with the most powerful graphics cards to be able to play and enjoy the advantages of the PC over consoles, but with a graphics card like this new AMD model, it can give us enough of power to enjoy recently released games at a more than acceptable frame rate and image quality.

That’s why we’re going to give you an overview of the specifications of the AMD RX 6500 XT, so that you have a rough idea of what to expect from it and for which more modest market sector it is oriented. . .from the RX 6000 family.

It is the most modest RX 6000

The first thing we must take into account before talking about a graphics card is to talk about its GPU, which, like the rest of the 6000 series graphics cards, is based on the RDNA 2 architecture, but at a smaller size. scale, so It supports technologies such as Ray Tracing, Mesh Shaders and everything Microsoft needs to support DirectX 12 Ultimate.

RX 6500 XT Specifications

In any case, we summarize the technical specifications of the RX 6500 XT below:

Basic mode clock speed is 2.2GHz, but like the rest of AMD graphics cards under RDNA architectures we have the so-called game clock which in this case comes from 2.6GHz, which is maintained most of the time while we play. Accelerate the speed? 2815MHz. By the way, we specify that the speed rates are taken from the last clock speed.
16 RDNA 2-type Calculation Units, where each includes a ray accelerator unit and 4 texture units in each, but a total of 64 TMUs and 16 units for Ray Tracing
With 32-bit floating point computing power, this graphics card can provide 5.76 TFLOPS of power and thanks to the support of Rapid Packed Math or SIMD on register we have a power of 11.53 TFLOPS and FP16, performance enjoyed by FidelityFX Super Resolution.
The texturing rate is 180.2 Gtexeles per second. While the fill rate is 90.08 GPixels/s thanks to 32 ROPS.
As soon as the VRAM we are in front of a bus of 64 bit GDDR6 with a speed of 18 Gbps, that means 4 GB capacity and a bandwidth of 144 GB/s.

As you can see we are facing a graphics card with lower specifications than the rest of the graphics cards, all this has allowed AMD to create a design with a very small chip, since it barely measures 107 millimeters²

of surface and with a 107W consumption, making it ideal for building systems with Mini-ITX cases such as an HTPC.

You will be able to find RX 6500 XT models from different manufacturers in the form of a dual slot card, but also with an extremely compact size. And it looks like the Radeon Technology Group designed it with the goal of building compact, low-power, and extremely quiet systems.

gaming performance

What interests us in any gaming-oriented graphics card is to see its performance in terms of games, because we are not dealing with a GPU designed for high resolutions, we have not tested it at 4K resolutions or 1440p, since if you’re interested in playing at higher resolutions, our recommendation is to opt for much more powerful models. Let’s not forget that this RX 6500 XT is designed for 1080p, but with nuances.

Therefore, the different performance tests were run at the same time Full HD resolution,

and we were surprised that in many titles with which we tested the speed of games in many cases does not reach 60 frames per second the games being executed in high graphics quality. This tells us a lot about who the target users of the RX 6500 XT are.

Market and users

We are facing a more well thought-out graphics card model for eSport games like League of Legends, fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone, CS: GO, etc In other words, games for the eSports market that are not about achieving high visual fidelity, but rather about speed.

Another of the potential markets that the AMD RX 6500 XT might be interested in are the so-called Lapsed Gamers, people who build low-cost gaming systems for the purpose of playing games that are already a few years old and, therefore, they do not require peak power. Although in general its performance is lower than expected due to its 64-bit bus, which is a form of protection against the cryptocurrency mining market and makes its availability much higher.

Finally, it is a compact design ideal for creating a high-caliber HTPC that can be used to emulate various retro systems and enjoy them from the high definition television in our house. From a certain point of view, it is the successor of this R9 Vega Nano that dazzled us aesthetically a few years ago and therefore we are faced with an ideal design for Mini-ITX systems, although for this we have had to pay a significant price loss of performance in the process.