Average Bench: 50.1% (117th of 700)

Based on 2,907 user benchmarks.  Device: 1002 743F Model: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Whilst the drought in the GPU market continues, street prices for AMD cards are around 50% lower than comparable (based on headline average fps figures) Nvidia cards. Many experienced users simply have no interest in buying AMD cards, regardless of price. The combined market share for all of AMD’s RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs amongst PC gamers (Steam stats) is just 2.12% whilst Nvidia’s RTX 2060 alone accounts for 5.03%. AMD’s Neanderthal marketing tactics seem to have come back to haunt them. Their brazen domination of social media platforms including youtube and reddit resulted in millions of users purchasing sub standard products. Be wary of sponsored reviews with cherry picked games that showcase the wins and ignore the losses. Experienced gamers know all too well that headline average fps are worthless when they are accompanied with stutters, random crashes, excessive noise and a limited feature set. [Jan '22 GPUPro]

Average average bench

The AMD RX 6500-XT averaged 49.9% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 59.8fps
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 110fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD RX 6500-XT is just 7.5%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the AMD RX 6500-XT performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 74.4fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 123fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 2,907 samples)
Min Avg Max
55.5 Lighting 59.8 65.6
61 Reflection 74.4 79.7
104 Parallax 123 136
48.8% 85.8 fps
Min Avg Max
82.4 MRender 110 118
55.3 Gravity 67 73.6
26.1 Splatting 31.9 34.5
52.6% 69.5 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Lighting 67.2
Reflection 78.6
Parallax 128
55% 91.2 fps
MRender 117
Gravity 72.6
Splatting 34.1
56% 74.4 fps
Legend(17AA E460) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 4GB, Driver: 22.20.18.14
Lighting 67.6
Reflection 76.6
Parallax 127
55% 90.4 fps
MRender 110
Gravity 72.8
Splatting 33.4
55% 72.1 fps
Lighting 67.3
Reflection 74.2
Parallax 127
55% 89.4 fps
MRender 113
Gravity 72.4
Splatting 32.5
55% 72.5 fps
Legend(17AA E460) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 4GB, Driver: 22.20.18.03
Lighting 66.7
Reflection 74.9
Parallax 127
54% 89.6 fps
MRender 114
Gravity 72.1
Splatting 32.2
55% 72.9 fps
Lighting 66
Reflection 76.9
Parallax 128
54% 90.3 fps
MRender 117
Gravity 70.9
Splatting 31.6
55% 73.1 fps
Lighting 61
Reflection 77.9
Parallax 130
50% 89.8 fps
MRender 117
Gravity 71.5
Splatting 33.8
56% 74.1 fps
MSI(1462 5080) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 4GB, Driver: 23.5.2
Lighting 59.9
Reflection 78.6
Parallax 131
49% 89.8 fps
MRender 117
Gravity 71.8
Splatting 34.1
56% 74.2 fps
Lighting 60
Reflection 78.6
Parallax 122
49% 86.8 fps
MRender 115
Gravity 68.7
Splatting 33.2
55% 72.2 fps
Asus(1043 05DB) ≥ 4GB
Ram: 4GB, Driver: 23.5.2
Lighting 58.6
Reflection 74.1
Parallax 135
48% 89.2 fps
MRender 115
Gravity 68.2
Splatting 31.5
54% 71.6 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
MSI(1462 5080) 25% 50% ± 4%
PowerColor(148C 2415) 15% 50% ± 1%
PowerColor RX 6500 XT 4GB
AXRX 6500XT 4GBD6-DH/OC
XFX(1EAE 6401) 13% 51% ± 2%
XFX RX 6500 XT 4GB Speedster QICK210
‎RX-65XT4DBDQ
Asus(1043 05DB) 10% 50% ± 3%
Sapphire(1DA2 E457) 10% 50% ± 2%
Sapphire RX 6500 XT 4GB Pulse
‎11314-01-20G
EbayUS $1702 mins
ASRock(1849 5226) 9% 49% ± 1%
ASRock RX 6500 XT 4GB Phantom Gaming D OC
‎RX6500XT PGD 4GO
EbayUS $1652 mins
Gigabyte(1458 2402) 8% 51% ± 1%
Gigabyte RX 6500 XT 4GB Eagle
GV-R65XTEAGLE-4GD
AmazonUS $23020 mins
EbayUS $2302 mins
Gigabyte(1458 2401) 3% 51% ± 2%
Gigabyte RX 6500 XT 4GB Gaming OC
GV-R65XTGAMING OC-4GD
AmazonUS $25020 mins
Asus(1043 05D9) 3% 49% ± 2%
Asus RX 6500 XT 4GB TUF Gaming OC
TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING
EbayUS $1852 mins
Device(1ED3 6500) 1% 48% ± 0%
Legend(17AA E460) 1% 50% ± 0%
AMD(1002 0E46) 1% 50% ± 0%
ASRock(1849 5227) 0% 0% ± 0%
ASRock RX 6500 XT 4GB Challenger ITX
RX6500XT CLI 4G
AmazonUS $16020 mins
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Workstation
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B550M DS3H

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7 days ago.

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AMD should be embarrassed about this... unless the real reason for it's pitiful existence is so that team red cheerleaders can point at this and pretend to have an unbiased opinion worth listening to, in which case, it's a job well done!—Jan '22

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AMD are great at selling junk. They pee in the well with fake comments, glorified cheerleaders on youtube and paid magazine reviews. My POS PC still crashes randomly. Everybody needs to call the rats out instead of letting them get away with it.—May '22

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lol - advanced marketing devices.—May '22


Excellent

1 month ago.

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Not worth it as cards from 5 years ago preform better than this potato.—Jan '22


Disliked

1 day ago.

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Literally just an rx 480 on 6nm, except it's priced the same as it was 6 years ago. Garbage for everything except strictly gaming, so this might be a good card for desperate gamers out there who need a gpu (not an upgrade!).—Jan '22


Poor

1 month ago.

It's the best low budget card on the market one can buy new (it's the only one).


Poor

3 months ago.

Brand new AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, performing as a GTX 1650S, hoped to see better performance, the culture of work is excellent, temps also fine, but hurted for having only 4GB VRAM. For budget gamer playing 1080p it is good choice, but if you want strong GPU performance, avoid it. And I think that this card is slightly overpriced. For now, affordable as a new product assuming you got already PCIe 4.0 motherboard and CPU with Resizable Bar support. Otherwise, you won't be satisfied with this GPU for current price and it's crippled performance.


Disliked

7 months ago.

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Short Review: My card doesn't even work, display drivers malfunction on Windows 10+11, Radeon Software makes it worse somehow Long Review: As someone with an OEM PC, I can't upgrade my 400w PSU since it's shaped rectangularly or fit most GPUs because the case is small, so I looked for a GPU that could possibly fit AND demand a lower amount of power. I thought this card would be my saving grace, as the performance is better than my older card as well (an OEM version of the RX 580 4GB, side note it performed more like a 570). Of course, though, this card was too good to be true. The display drivers are fudged up and I can't fix it with my minor technological skills so I gotta send this shyte back.—Apr '22


Excellent

12 months ago.

It reeks of OEM cards. Still really impressive what performance you can get with a shoestring as a memory bus.


Excellent

15 months ago.

It's so bad that miners won't get it, and strong enough to run most games respectably, especially if you don't care about triple A games. Don't compare it to flagship cards, if only just for the price/performance vs what gpu scalpers want for stronger cards.


Good

16 months ago.


Good

16 months ago.

Sham product release, crafted to give AMD’s social media army a fake punch bag to beat on. The guys at AMD marketing must be on fire.


Terrible

1 month ago.

Horrible, according to this website, the 5500XT is 2% faster I know its not much this was supposed to be NEXT GEN HARDWARE (at the time.) worse failure than the rx 460.


Terrible

16 months ago.

Awful don't buy this card it's worst than cards released half a decade ago


Average

5 months ago.

Needs more VRAM


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