- Graphics Processor: Navi 24
- Cores: 1024
- TMUs / ROPs: 64 / 32
Expert Verdict
A budget AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card with limited performance overall. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks.
Review
Gaming
16
Workstation
22
AI/ML
17
Energy Efficiency
61
Quick Comparison Final Score
19
Pros
- Hardware ray tracing support
- Dedicated AI tensor cores
Cons
- Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
- No DLSS upscaling support
Compare Radeon RX 6500 XT with other products
Full Specifications
Games
Performance
Forza Horizon 5
The Witcher 3
Counter-Strike 2
Far Cry 6
Hogwarts Legacy
Call of Duty
Ghost of Tsushima
Cyberpunk 2077
Tomb Raider
Average FPS
1080p High
1080p Ultra
1440p Ultra
4K Ultra
FPS Table
| 1080p High | 1080p Ultra | 1440p Ultra | 4K Ultra | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forza Horizon 5 | 43 | — | — | — |
| The Witcher 3 | 49 | — | — | — |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 69 | — | — | — |
| Far Cry 6 | 54 | — | — | — |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 27 | — | — | — |
| Call of Duty | 45 | — | — | — |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 29 | — | — | — |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 34 | — | — | — |
| Tomb Raider | 59 | — | — | — |
| Average FPS | 45 | — | — | — |
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High
59
1080p Ultra
45
1440p Ultra
29
4K Ultra
15
Margin of Error
Low
3D Mark
Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
| Steel Nomad Lite Score | 4764 |
|---|---|
| Time Spy | 4943 |
| Solar Bay | 20002 |
| Port Royal | 368 |
| Fire Strike | 15575 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 8989 |
| Night Raid | 65384 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
| GB6 Compute Score | 53081 |
|---|---|
| Background Blur | 130.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 70.1 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.59 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 2.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.02 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 223 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7470.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL |
Passmark Graphics
Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
Blender
Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
GeekBench 6 ML
Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
| GB6 ML Single Precision | 10359 |
|---|---|
| GB6 ML Half Precision | 12861 |
| GB6 ML Quantized | 7842 |
| Image Classification (SP) | 3867 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 5136 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 11758 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 14844 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 42787 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1986 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2665 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 4251 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 19707 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 101802 |
| Framework | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML |
General
| Vendor | Amd |
|---|---|
| Build | Discrete |
| Released | 19-Jan-22 |
| Case | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | Navi 24 |
| Recommended CPU | -Intel Core i5 12400or above |
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2310 MHz |
|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 2815 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | — |
| Tensor Cores | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 1024KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 90 GPixel/s |
|---|---|
| Texture Fill Rate | 180 GTexel/s |
| FLOPS (FP32) | 5.8 TFLOPS |
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
|---|---|
| TGP | 107 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm |
| Die Size | 107 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 5 billion |
| Transistor Density | 46.73 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | — |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 |
|---|
API
| DirectX | 12 |
|---|---|
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 |
| CUDA | — |
| Ray Tracing | Yes |
| DLSS | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a |
