Radeon RX 6500 XT
The Radeon RX 6500 XT is AMD’s 4GB graphics card with a 107W board power rating, built on the RDNA 2 Navi 24 architecture. Below you’ll find its full spec sheet and gaming and productivity benchmarks, plus all 5 board versions we track, each with its cheapest current price.
Prices update regularly and may differ at the retailer. This page contains affiliate links.
Gaming performance
Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.
1080p Gaming
1440p Gaming
4K Gaming
The Radeon RX 6500 XT scores 15.1 at 1080p, 6.3 at 1440p, and 0.0 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.
Performance-per-dollar rank among all GPUs with live pricing
Value at 1080p
#34
of 52
Value at 1440p
#44
of 51
Value at 4K
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Benchmarks
Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.
3D & gaming
Render
Compute & AI
Radeon RX 6500 XT versions (5)
Every board version we track, cheapest first.
| Version | Boost Clock | Length | Color | From | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PowerColor RX 6500 XT ITX | — | 165 mm | — | $207.99 |  |
 | ASRock RX 6500 XT Phantom Gaming D OCOC | — | 240 mm | — | $242.44 | |
 | GIGABYTE RX 6500 XT EAGLE | — | 192 mm | — | $259.99 | |
 | ASUS TUF RX 6500 XT GAMING OCOC | — | 250 mm | — | $497.79 | |
 | MSI RX 6500 XT MECH 2X OCOC | — | 172 mm | — | $880.12 | |
5 board versions of the Radeon RX 6500 XT are listed above, starting from $207.99. Prices update daily from live retailer stock. Click any version name for its full spec sheet and all current retailer prices.
Specifications
Board versions of the Radeon RX 6500 XT range from 165–250 mm long, so check your case's GPU clearance before buying.
Performance
- Boost clock
- 2815 MHz
- Base clock
- 2310 MHz
- Shader cores
- 1,024
- Compute units
- 16
- Texture units (TMUs)
- 64
- Render outputs (ROPs)
- 32
- RT cores
- 16 · 1st gen
Memory
- VRAM
- 4GB GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 64-bit
- Bandwidth
- 144 GB/s
- Memory speed
- 18 Gbps
- Infinity Cache
- 16 MB
GPU die
- Architecture
- RDNA 2 Navi 24
- Process node
- TSMC N6
- Foundry
- TSMC
- Die size
- 107 mm²
- Transistors
- 5.4 billion
- Generation
- Radeon RX 6000
Power
- TDP
- 107W
- Recommended PSU
- 400W
- Power connectors
- 1 6-pin
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680 × 4320
- Max displays
- 4
- HDCP
- 2.3
- Outputs
- 1 HDMI 2.1, 1 Displayport 1.4a
- PCIe interface
- PCIe 4.0 ×16
APIs & software
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12.2)
- Vulkan
- 1.3
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.2
- Shader model
- 6.7
Video encoding & decoding
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 / AVC | Not supported | Not supported |
| H.265 / HEVC | Not supported | Supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not supported | Not supported |
Decoder: VCN (HEVC decode only)
Features
- Upscaling
- FSR 3, FSR 3 Frame Generation
- Also runs
- XeSS 2, XeSS 2 Frame Generation
- Resizable BAR
- Yes
Physical
- Reference length
- 172 mm
- Slot width
- 2 slots
- Released
- 2022-01-19
- MSRP
- $199.00
1,024 shader cores feed a 64-bit memory interface delivering 144 GB/s of peak bandwidth. 16 RT cores enable hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Compare the Radeon RX 6500 XT against the full GPU lineup on the GPU comparison table.
How the Radeon RX 6500 XT compares
Similar cards worth a look, based on live prices and 1440p gaming performance. Open any head-to-head for the full specs, benchmark and price breakdown.
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