AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, Gaming Benchmarks & Specs

Averages 36 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles

36 Avg FPS Includes estimates

Nothing here is a measurement of this card. It is an anchored estimate built from the cards we have run ourselves, on the identical suite. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT averages 36 FPS. The ceiling is Black Desert Online at 48 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 24 FPS, a 2.0x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles. Under load we logged a peak of 103W against the 107W rating.

Gaming benchmark results

BenchmarkResult1% LowVRAM UsedPowerData
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra28 FPS223.68 GB102 WEstimated
Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality32 FPS253.68 GB100 WEstimated
Alan Wake 2 1440p · High24 FPS203.68 GB98 WEstimated
Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra46 FPS383.68 GB103 WEstimated
Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered48 FPS313.68 GB102 WEstimated
Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High45 FPS303.68 GB86 WEstimated
Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra39 FPS303.68 GB101 WEstimated
Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra34 FPS313.68 GB92 WEstimated
The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra26 FPS223.68 GB102 WEstimated

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT specifications

ArchitectureRDNA 2 (Navi 24)
Stream processors1,024
VRAM4GB GDDR6
Memory bus64-bit
Memory bandwidth144 GB/s
Boost clock2,815 MHz
TDP107 W
Process6nm
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4
Release date2022-01-19
Launch MSRP$199

Verdict, 1080p gaming

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT averages 36 FPS at 1440p on our suite. Nothing here is a measurement of this card. It is an anchored estimate built from the cards we have run ourselves, on the identical suite.

Relative performance: where the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT lands

100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #68 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.

GPURelative%Avg FPS
AMD Radeon RX 6600
128%46
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
128%46
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
114%41
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
106%38
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
100%36
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
94%34
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
92%33
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super
86%31
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
86%31

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The silicon

Transistors5,400 million
Die size107 mm²
Process node6 nm
Fabricated byTSMC
Transistor density50.5 million per mm²

Denser than 63% of the 76 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.

Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.