AMD’s New Budget Radeon RX 6500 XT Is Here

AMD gave us only a sneak peep of theRadeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400when the chipmaker revealed the background graphics cards at CES earlier this class , but now that they are officially uncommitted — for what will in all probability be an super inadequate time ( at retail prices , at least)—we’re finally witness the complete impression .

agree to AMD , these card are the good replacement for your get on Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 or RX 570 GPUs . The Nvidia rival contend the RX 6500 XT can accomplish strong 1080p gaming results and supports ray tracing , modern requirements that make it a compelling option at its $ 199 suggested terms .

We receive an RX 6500 XT to review but are n’t yet quick to share results . For now , we ’ll go over the benchmarks AMD render , and tote up our usual “ take these with a grain of salt ” disclosure beforehand . But first , rent ’s talk specs — and for now , we ’ll focus exclusively on the more sinewy RX 6500 XT .

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This entering - spirit level GPU base on TSMC ’s 6 - micromillimetre guest has 5.4 billion electronic transistor , 16 compute units , 16 ray accelerators , 16 GB of Infinity Cache , and 4 GB of GDDR6 RAM ( at 18 GBps ) on a 64 - bit port . A perchance severe limitation is documentation for only four PCIe 4.0 lane compared to the 16 lane of PCIe 3.0 on the RX 570 . That should be fine for 1080p gaming if you ’re using a motherboard with PCI 4.0 support , but panel restricted to PCI 3.0 will be limited to 4GBps of bandwidth . Clock speed reach 2.6GHz and board power necessity start at 107W with a minimum recommended PSU of 400W.

Onto the benchmarks : AMD says the Radeon RX 6500 XT is 41 % quicker than the GTX 1650 and Radeon RX 570 when playing — wait for it — Farming Simulator 22 . Shifting to a more or less more popular game , Halo Infinite , the RX 6500 XT topped the GTX 1650 by 12 % , reaching 80 frames per second at 1080p . That is a small encouragement over Nvidia ’s 2 - twelvemonth - old mid - range card , but remember , the 6500 XT is supposed to cost only $ 200 ( do note , though , that the base GTX 1650 launch at $ 150 ) .

Overall , AMD claims the RX 6500 XT is , on average , 33 % faster than the GTX 1650 across various game , including Age of Empire 4 ( 1.2x faster ) , Far Cry 6 ( 1.3x ) , Forza Horizon 4 ( 1.4x ) , Horizon Zero Dawn ( 1.4x ) , Resident Evil : Village ( 1.6x ) , and Apex Legends ( 1.3x ) . A few other notable deed of conveyance to highlight include Overwatch ( 1.3x ) , PUBG ( 1.2x ) , and Fortnite ( 1.4x ) . We ’re in the process of verifying these result , but if they ’re precise , the RX 6500XT consistently outperforms the GTX 1650 by a decent , if short of groundbreaking , margin .

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Assisting the new graphics card is AMD FidelityRFX Super Resolution ( FSR ) , which can boost frame rates by 30 % or more in games like Call of Duty : Vanguard , Far Cry 6 , and Deathloop without in earnest impacting image timbre . The microchip also sustain Radeon Anti - Lag , which AMD claims trim latency by up to 33 % . AMD ’s Radeon Super Resolution , the upcoming in - equipment driver upscaling feature of speech for games that do n’t confirm FSR , is another RX 6500 XT fringe benefit .

face at these numbers in a vacuum would indeed show that the RX 6500 XT is a overbold upgrade to older mid - range card , and can play some of the in vogue games at intermediate - to - mellow setting at 1080p graphics or at low-pitched preferences at over 100fps .

If only thing were this straightforward . It ’s only a thing of time before retail unit get snatched up by scalpers and relisted at higher prices ( the RX 6500 XT has already been spy at 2x its MSRP in France ) , an inevitableness that cave AMD ’s electronic messaging of this duo being approachable to gamers who are on a taut budget . If you ’re in that segment , exit out of this clause ASAP ( or , even better : open a new yellow journalism ) and initiate looking for OEM units from Asus , Gigabyte , MSI , ASRock , and the other common suspects .

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I ’ll swallow my words if AMD finds a elbow room to keep these in gillyflower , but until then , the Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 XT seem like they would be great budget artwork scorecard … two years in either direction from today .

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