AMD RX 6500 XT Review - ASUS TUF Gaming OC vs Gigabyte Gaming OC - 18 Games Tested

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Test Bench. Note, this is a GEN4 System. If you're considering it for a PCIe Gen3 system, do check out the review by Hardware Unboxed and Gamers Nexus as well!
CPU: Intel Core i9-11900K
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus XIII Hero WiFi
Memory: 32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4-3600
PSU: Seasonic Prime Titanium 850 Watt
SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus
Bench: Cooler Master Test Bench v2
Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:09 - What is the RX 6500 - A Quick Summary
1:44 - Bye Encoding & AV1
2:30 - 4GB of VRAM sucks
3:20 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider
3:40 - Troy Total War
4:02 - Adjusting Tests for 4GB VRAM
4:30 - Far Cry 6
4:37 - Outriders
4:46 - Assassin's Creed Odyssey
4:53 - Assassin's Creed Valhalla
5:10 - Watch Dogs Legion
5:17 - Metro Exodus
5:26 - Borderlands 3
5:34 - World War Z
5:42 - Wolfenstein Youngblood
5:53 - Call of Duty Vanguard (Multiplayer)
6:02 - CS:GO
6:20 - Apex Legends
6:31 - Control
6:55 - Cyberpunk 2077
7:20 - God of War
7:45 - Managing Expectations
8:06 - Some 1440p Summary
8:44 - Stupid Choices - PCIe Gen3 Owners Beware!
9:45 - ASUS TUF Gaming RX 6500 XT Overview
10:05 - Gigabyte RX 6500 XT Gaming OC Overview
10:28 - Only Two IO Connections?
10:39 - Clockspeeds
11:07 - Thermal Performance
11:38 - Power Consumption
12:13 - Choosing between ASUS and Gigabyte?
13:11 - Sad Final Thoughts
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[@FatalityDiablo]

this is the only review on the internet that doesn't throw high/ultra settings at AAA games and consequently cry for 20min about how this card is vram and bandwith limited... it's literally meant to be an worthy upgrade for the mass of gamers with low/mid tier gpus from 5+ years ago. bravo, excellent review.

[@TechTesters]

Glad you think so! I prefer a reasonable approach over a dramatic one, and it's nice to see folks can appreciate that!

[@mister3976]

Having seasonic prime as a sponsor is respectable as they really are legit. Its kind of like noctua fans or gskill memory.

[@Erowens98]

Yup. Seasonic are PSU kings right now.

[@stevewarwick2103]

A top tier PSU, undoubtedly.

[@G1Gaming85]

Not only there legit they are top notch psu on the market

[@michaelbuto305]

10 Years warranty but also solid quality(im using gold btw). What can we ask more :(

[@bojke91]

I like how we reached a point where companies really think we will buy any crap they throw at us...

[@TechTesters]

And they're probably right xD

[@bojke91]

@@TechTesters Yep, that's the sad part

[@rytechnology4828]

The current market allows companies to make any video card and it will sell like hot bread. Result: The 6500 xt.

[@picoherbie9987]

We will... the 6500 XT is sold out at most places and retailers have already increased the price of the 6500 XT to $260... so ya.. we will.

[@arnabgupta2804]

Your right

[@tadejpeckaj1151]

I like seeing you more often in my sub feeds. Keep the content pumping💪

[@mariusclaudiu3146]

As always a very good review without any bias and other crap. Big like!

[@TechTesters]

Thanks! I try :D

[@Arc_Gamer_]

This card is pretty much a failure and embarrassing for AMD, can't wait for Intel Arc GPUs to hopefully shake up the discrete GPU market duopoly.

[@TechTesters]

I really, really hope so!

[@Rayu25Demon]

Dude it's embarrassing that's the market Deal between AMD and Nvidia AMD rules consoles. Nvidia rules PC. And third Challenger will be treated like heiwei.

[@jochenkraus7016]

@@Rayu25Demon I don't think so. It's Intel that rules Notebooks. A problem might be if the smalles ARC GPU is too good: 6GB, slot powered and if it has high efficiency, it might have a decent performance with PCIe 3.0.

[@mdo]

Don't hold your breath. Intel has a track record of abysmal drivers. Just look at XE. Been around for a while and the hardware is very good for an iGPU but perfromance is terrible on most modern games (if they even run at all).

[@erwinmulder1338]

That GTX 1080Ti of mine, while considered pricey at the time back in 2017 (around 800 bucks) turns out to be one of my best investments in computer hardware ever.

[@Fztrm]

i upgraded to a 3080 ti a few months ago but my old 1080 ti is still going strong! beast of a gpu, would probably still use it if i didnt want in on some ray tracing and DLSS action

[@pyramidschemer4083]

People who bought 1080 Ti as flagship and RX 580 8 GB at budget (both for MSRP) were the lucky ones these past few years

[@4Leka]

Same for my used 2080 Ti which I bought for less than half its MSRP after the 3080 launched.

[@injection3946]

Smashed the like button to support you even if that's all I can. 😌 btw your contents are full of rich quality. Just love them.

[@siolentreacon]

great review!

[@KhaledRasool]

Such an underrated channel, love your videos

[@elteacher0223]

Thanks for sharing

[@anasmahajny368]

One of the HONEST youtuber I ever seen , YOU deserve much respect for your explanation

[@aelphacom]

Very clean, professional and unbiased review.

[@epmcgee]

Except there is bias at 2 minutes in. xD

[@GabrielNica1]

When the AIBs deliver a 3 fans cooling solution for a 64 bit card to make it more appealing..

[@TechTesters]

I think a lot of buyers will just look at the number of fans or size of the card and think " more is better"

[@swizzler8053]

Put an EK waterblock on it 😉

[@mdo]

That doesn't matter. Since AMD used a small die and cranked up the frequency it does result in enough heat to need as many fans as it can get.

[@Ruperth316]

I like how you can keep a straight face while explaining the ridiculous specs of these cards, I'd be laughing my ass off if someone told me to market these cards. Great job by the way

[@deleater]

01:30 whoa look at that. This is revolutionary. I don't remember seeing something like this before. I mean this representation of specs comparison is definitely original. A simple table with three columns could also do this until you see this chart. This looks clean and the degree of difference look so fine and clear at this chart.

[@michahojwa8132]

Yes - this part is seriously good.

[@juanlora7072]

Not that “impressive” 😐

[@erick1fpb]

remember... its 4gb against 8gb.... and the 8gb its twice the price... this review aint good

[@Kryptic1046]

Great review!

[@TechTesters]

Thanks! :D

[@cadefoster9279]

Great review as usual Any way you can add X-Plane and MSFS2020 to your testing regime?

[@TechTesters]

I'll think about it, but flight sims reaaaally don't appeal to me ;)

[@We12Travel84]

Hi there How would you build a pc around with 6700xt ? Thx Enjoy your day

[@michahojwa8132]

Good review - you set settings to use as much of the card as possible. There is only last step down that could be done - using FSR + sub 1080p resolution, like 1440pFSRQ.

[@TechTesters]

Thanks! And I think that is just the only way potential buyers should approach this card, whether that's disappointing or not. But, I do draw the line at dropping below 1080p ;)

[@fintrollpgr]

Absolutely the best and most balanced review I have seen of this card. Finally somebody thought of FSR, took into account the 4Gb and PCI-E limit, and understands that a large majority of the buyers doesn't care about HW encoding (as you can do that on CPU for the 1 or 2 times you do that). Some reviewers did not seem get this is a budget card (even if the price is a bit high for a budget card) I even saw reviews complaining you could not hook up 3 monitors to this card, as if you can afford 3 monitors when you're buying this card!? Great work!

[@sulev111]

Not everyone is a gamer.

[@notcraig255]

@@sulev111 well too fucking bad this card wasn't made for those people

[@justinyumang759]

Nice review

[@TechTesters]

Thanks!

[@tomweyts]

question , i'm building a budget rig for a friend , with an i3 10105F and a cheap gigabyte B560 board , this does support PCIE 4.0 ? that i3 is 11th gen right?

[@javierg.5418]

Which one is better on pci-e 2.0? Rx 570 4gb, or rx 6500? both for 80 usd on my country, are the cheapest options

[@xces_fn]

Leuke review!

[@annawinters]

I bought one to put in a budget mini-ITX build alongside an i3-12100F. No regrets yet. My last graphics card was a GTX 750 Ti that I bought in 2015 and barely ever made full use of because I tend to play older games, and per benchmarks the 6500 XT should be something like 2.5 times as good as that card was.

[@ric0m0nster38]

any updates with 6500xt?

[@alfredojimenez6623]

thank you !!!

[@TechTesters]

Welcome! :D

[@TechAgama]

A card worse than 2016 GPUs, AMD has outdone Intel and Nvidia here.

[@Paraclef]

Hello and thank you for the video. I have a suggestion, because the white font with the results really badly hurt the eyes. Is it possible to avoid those really bright screens ?

[@TechTesters]

Do you mean the numbers in the graphs?

[@Paraclef]

@@TechTesters Yes. When it is really bright.

[@FGSTH]

Nice video ! i will try to buy it when i have the chance . I want to do a Budget Build with i3 12100F :)

[@TechTesters]

Was thinking about that, but I don't really have any cheap cases laying around atm. Maybe soon!

[@angelinatucci7374]

How much will it be scalped for tho?

[@lummoxicide1502]

Thanks for this, I'm considering picking up an open box gigabyte 6500 xt from microcenter for $167, there's also an asrock 6500xt open box for $155

[@arsim2.0]

can you show gameplay as well when you are testing each games performance

[@gdog-wk5ww]

how would this car do just for a streaming pc? will not be running games on it.

[@dreamcastfanatic9548]

I'm currently in the process of building a PC, and I feel like this card works for what I'm trying to do.

[@jerryspann8713]

I have the card and it works fine. Some games run at over 120fps. On paper it looks bad, but in reality it does the job it was designed to do. With integrated I couldn't run Forza 4 Horizon. I was get 3 fps. With the 6500xt, I get 85 to 90 fps running on a 3.0 bus.

[@hal6yon]

Gigabyte really slapped a 3-fan long heatsink on a PCB that is only 2-fan long and charged 100 extra dollars for it.

[@brickbastardly]

I'm glad you used market prices. So many Reviewers stick there heads in the sand with MSRP.

[@patty109109]

The fact that this is widely available pretty much tells you what you need to know :)

[@Sage_Lucas]

I'm not planning on buying this, but I'm surprised to see it not even being 200 Euro/USD at least for the first wave of the cards. It's understandable if the price would increase for later re-stocks, but at least the first wave should be MSRP. Edit: Where I've checked it's 300 Euro or more, just to make it clear. I did see someone mentioning it was available for 180 GBP in the UK before it sold out today, but I haven't seen the same in Europe yet.

[@TechTesters]

ASUS and GB both have indicated 300-350 euros for their card. 200 euros was never going to happen even with a 200$ MSRP pre-covid, 250 euros would probably have been a bare minimum (taxes, etc). So I'm not really surprised. Tbh even 300 sounds "good" to me right now; 1650 costs 350 or more, 1650 super isnt for sale anywhere, and a 4yo 2nd hand RX 580 doesnt sound great either.

[@stuartburnell2898]

@@TechTesters you could pick up the sapphire and the power color models for 180 gbp until the 1st batches sold out. You can still pick them up for 225 uk pounds . The asus overpriced models are 278 and 329 pounds respectively .

[@palecelery]

Your face in the thumbnail is all I need to see 😂😂

[@khaledmostafa6299]

do it graphic card Radeon™RX 6500 XT GAMING OC 4G it good with games or It is happening any problem such as drop frame , lags

[@go_yixiong]

A serious quesiton: since people can get 6500 xt at $199 MSRP easily, how does it perform if you set up 2 cards together ($400) in AMD crossfire mode?

[@Besotted85]

Gotta give the credit for being honest. Deserves a thumb up! :)

[@TechTesters]

Always :) And thank yo u!

[@ashwinkoshti9991]

awesomely detailed review, i would say if this card would have performed atleast closer to 1660 or the super, it would have made sense and also only it costed cheaper that those, PC gaming is getting to its all time low daily, low budget gaming as it is completely dead.

[@michahojwa8132]

Mooreslaw is doing 2 reviews - as AMD fanboy and trying to reach 1660ti performance and as Nvidia fanboy, trying to reach 1050ti performance. This is one of the best reviews on the internet.

[@marek2388]

Great review like always. I just wonder when we will see normal prices for Gpu’s. 350€ is too much for this card….

[@TechTesters]

Thanks! And I wish I knew, it doesn't seem like it's getting much better any time soon.

[@sulev111]

Whenever ETH2 takes over. Then we'll have used cards for sale. But new cards will probably newer sell for old prices like 2-3y ago. Inflation, supply chain shortages, politics.

[@marek2388]

@@sulev111 Maybe it’s happening. I was able to buy rtx 3070 for 800€ 2 months used. Price is not great but cheaper about 300€

[@lynx873]

@@TechTesters guide me which gpu I should buy Rx 6500xt or gtx 1650 super

[@lynx873]

@@TechTesters plzz reply I didn't decide which one is better and long lasting

[@Trusteft]

If not for the lack of encoding and AV1 thing, this would be a good "budget" card. Plays games just fine (I don't consider framerates under 60 necessarily as bad) at 1080p and if you have to lower to 720p. But the lack of encoding is just a huge no for me*. Shame. Good review as always, thanks for sharing. *not that I would buy a non Nvidia card for streaming, but you see where I am going with this.

[@TechTesters]

Yeah, NVENC is hard to beat atm. But some encoding would have been nice! Then again, I guess 90% of budget gamers don't care?

[@Trusteft]

@@TechTesters Oh yes, absolutely. Let's not forget that those of us who do care and are on youtube/twitch are really a small fraction of the people buying gaming GPUs. Because we tend to communicate mostly to people similar to ourselves, we sometimes forget that not everyone cares lol.

[@lemurdreamur9257]

Haven't seen someone have to review a brand new card on medium/low setting.. at 1080p, make of that what you like..

[@dusann5980]

Is it worth buying for gaming or not

[@deeg3545]

So you are saying i should keep my 5500xt with 8Gb ram?

[@rokku87]

Congratulations on the seasonic sponsorship.

[@jonathanellis6097]

Well AMD had the chance to make a good low end card for gamers, they obviously blew it.

[@TechTesters]

We'll have to settle for " maybe not the most horrible low end card". :P

[@FromTheHood]

@@TechTesters Most people still have Gen3 motherboards and if you plug in this card to Gen3 PCIE slot, you're cutting it's performance by 50%, literally. So yeah, it is the most horrible low end card atm, 'cause even RX 580 from 5 years ago is better than this.

[@amika8828]

@@FromTheHood research shows that 55% of KZbin users already running pci gen4.

[@-nikifor-1546]

@@FromTheHood ok get a 580 card somehow then, people like you talking how older cards are better yet you cant even buy one

[@FromTheHood]

@@-nikifor-1546 I don't want one.

[@user-dd9cg7zc1c]

this is old being rename right? what are the card? rx480?

[@TechTesters]

No this is newer tech.

[@sreif78]

I' never thought my previous graphics card, the 5600XT, would seem like a luxury item. Don't get me wrong, it was a very good card., but wow. As Chamberlain announced peace, AMD has now announced gaming in our time.

[@TechTesters]

Any card bought 2-3 years ago looks like a luxury item and great deal at this point :D

[@sreif78]

@@TechTesters Very true. Heck, I bought a 6800 Nitro+ at 25% over MSRP and have had no regerts since mid Jan. last year. I sold the 5600xt and CPU and RAM to a local kid in mid August 2021. When he had to ask his mom to buy them, I took his lower offer. I hope he's having fun. I enjoyed my late nights gaming, even in the SVGA era of Silent Hunter 2, Battle Hawks 1942 and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. #jaggies

[@gvz1999]

Great 👍

[@qT_p13]

This card is the new gt730. In a few years people will use it to get some display outputs, and pre-built companies will market them as "gaming" pcs.

[@TechTesters]

Nah, this can genuinely game pretty well on 1080p medium. The GT 730 is a potato that can maybe run LoL

[@aliananza1990]

At this point manufacturers know even if they release garbage it will still sell...

[@djwindkind]

I like your channel, nice presentation, competent and complete. just one MAJOR thing, stop trying to fool us that YOU do all the testing. just say US, its ok, every channel has helping hands. ppl wont take you less seriously, if you stay true to the facts.

[@MistyKathrine]

You should have tested on PCIe gen 3, which is what most people use. The PCIe 4x4 hurts this card a lot. Other reviewers showing this card losing as much as 50% performance on PCIe 3 systems.

[@TechTesters]

I knew that plenty of others were already looking into that. There's only a couple of days of testing possible before a launch. Nothing wrong with testing for people with a recent system or building a new one right?

[@orlandoalfaro1692]

Just bought one for my gaming pc 😄 good price for this situation is going on right now

[@randomness5074]

Just bought this card (ASUS TUF Version)on Cyber Monday, $194.39 OTD but with an $80 Rebate. So at $114.39 OTD a great deal IMO, for my kids gaming PC.

[@TechTesters]

For that money, absolutely!

[@mrdot1126]

i get the 4gb thing cuz of the miners.. but all the other corner cuttings, and bandwidth issue with PCIe3 boards, wich most people that would buy a card like this, will probably have.. this is a bad take on a budget card... i mean

[@stevenanderson3205]

The RX 5500 XT came with 4 GB and 8 GB versions will this come in a 8 GB version?

[@TechTesters]

I doubt it, with that memory bus it probably doesn't make any sense other than marketing purposes :-/

[@churchseraphim1380]

That big of a cooler for such a low TDP is kind of hilarious. At least it's quiet. Btw, I heard some people talking on Reddit about these cards having great undervolting potential. Apparently 6500 XT is so bandwidth limited that having high core clocks does almost nothing and you can drop down to 2500mhz level and lose almost no performance while cutting a ton of power. This card is a strange one... I wish they would have cut down power consumption and had a 6500 non XT that ran just off the PCIe connector

[@TechTesters]

Sounds like an interesting suggestion! But I'm not sure if I want to spend more time on that card now, there are some other cool things coming soon ;)

[@jerryspann8713]

They have a 6400 that just used MB power.

[@yoxebluegaming8064]

As always a great detailed review. This card doesn't seem right in the current market! Weird choice.

[@johndoh5182]

Actually it was the perfect card when it released for budget builds considering it ACTUALLY sold for around $200. Any GPU it was compared to when it came out was at least 50% more expensive. Within 1 month I was able to buy one for $170 USD. If anything this GPU helped to force down costs on the used market because that's the only place where you could price compete.

[@erlik9610]

Hope a heart from Techtesters is my dream.

[@warner7707]

@Techtesters How well does this graphics card work on fortnite?

[@Rapscallion2009]

Well. The power efficiency is nice and it may be the only option for some people. But it's odd that it's more expensive than a similarly performing card from almost 6 years ago. If the GPU market wasn't so screwy right now, this would be a great 100-£150 card like the 1050ti was a few years ago.

[@TechTesters]

If the GPU market wasn't this messed up I'd say it should probably be 50-100$ xD

[@tomb3782]

I wonder how well these perform in eGPU's?

[@TechTesters]

I imagine they're probably hurt more relatively than GPUs with a bigger vram buffer. Not sure though.

[@theoldpcgamer77]

In the UK at least earlier on before it sold out 30mins ago it was £180 for a dual fan one. Couple that with a new pcie 4 capable cheap cpu and in this market it's a bargain. Of course if you have an old gpu or pcie 3 cpu then whatever nothing to see here. For one morning at least here a new budget system could of been specced out for 1080p decent settings at 60fps which in the current market is a OMG moment.

[@TechTesters]

Yup! And Im guessing those 180 pounds dont really buy you anything actually better 2nd hand either right? It's still.a sad card, but it might still be OK for cases like that.

[@theoldpcgamer77]

@@TechTesters Yeah looking at a high street UK 2nd hand tech store called CEX the prices for any comparable gpu is more than the £180 you could have bought this for at Overclockers UK earlier on for the decent but cheapest variant. Normally this gpu would be all kinds of meh but in this market for that price brand new it made sense in a messed up way. Would go nicely with a cheap Intel 6 core cpu capable of pcie 4. What a crappy sad time it is for PC gaming right now when this gpu seems like a deal 😢. Well "seemed" like a deal anyway before they sold out. I'm guessing the next batch will be marked up as per usual.

[@abhishekrawat9090]

Is this card good for gaming at 188 $ in indian price. I have an intel i5-12400.

[@TechTesters]

How much is a 6600, that would be much better.

[@SpuriousECG]

Now isn't really the time for budget GPUs, given the supply constraints. Looking forward to how the 3050 compares with its slower memory, wider bus, and presumably full x16 lanes.

[@TechTesters]

Yeah me too, it looks promising. I just hope the prices will be OK.

[@epmcgee]

This didn't impact their supply, they repurposed chips they already had present from mobile manufacturing into discrete GPUs. The whole point was to get something out while there were supply issues without further impacting the supply issue.

[@derekmccord3798]

I just don't understand the hate over this card, nobody said it was going to do 300fps in 4K. It was always going to be a budget card in this type of market which is needed. Go ahead and look for at 570 on Ebay, guess what it's way more than this card. It is there for a kid who wants to buy a PC to play with his friends but doesn't have $500 to buy a better GPU. It's gonna do about 60 fps at 1080p, that's what the card was built for and that's what it does.

[@r.s.4174]

I can get the ASUS Dual RX 6500 XT for CHF 169.-- at the moment. No so bad for the money. I would not game on this, but it is a nice card for a high end office PC.

[@freddyng1843]

14:08 Now beating an almost 3 year old (entry level) card (from their competitor) is a really sad compliment in my opinion. Hahahaha. This made my day. To make things worse, the RX 6500 XT even struggles to beat it's predecessors like the RX 5500 XT and RX 580. Oh, I think Gigabyte really killed it with it's 3-fan design. The RX 6500 XT is a 2-fan max type of card.

[@kinzie3915]

So by AMD standards this is "budget" GPU that actually costs 250+$. A few days ago they released R7 5700X, 5600, 5500 (this is lower clocked 5600g without iGPU and PCIe 3.0 because it is Cezanne not Vermeer). So AMD just showed us their marketing about budget gaming setup = 250€ for GPU and 200€ for the cpu. I would rather stick with 3050 and 12100f and it would still be much better. Most stupidest move from AMD since they released Ryzen.

[@siolentreacon]

well I'm upgrading my motherboard to PCIe 4.0 and cpu to ryzen 5000 series, i currently have a rx 570 used as im on a budget i just picked up the rx 6500 xt oc for now it seems that its a little better as long as your using PCIe 4.0, got the card on boxing day for $140 CA this is temporary with be upgrading to 6700 in the near future. its exactly as she said its readily available and doesn't have to be permanent. all in all if you need a card on a budget i would say its worth it if your looking for something new and not used. you have the right to disagree

[@aboutb9735]

Just wondering why amd didn’t make this card work tandem (Or Crossfire) with Ryzen 5 5600g or 7 5700g? Makes more sense to budget pc-builders… But well what a shame.

[@TechTesters]

Not sure how well that will work, I remember a few years ago when they had their APUs work together with low-end GPUs (RX 550 iirc? trying to remember). That didn't offer a better experience than this card does today tbh.

[@broniusbronka2703]

@@TechTesters don't buy this card for ryzen 3xxxg, 4xxxg or 5xxxg models they run on pcie 3.0

[@aboutb9735]

@@broniusbronka2703 yeah, also i didn’t remember apu’s has a PCI-e gen 3 inside and it will make 6500 xt performance even worse… so buy regular prosessor with PCI-e gen 4 support if you are making gaming pc and a real graphics card, if you can afford it.

[@supergoofy123]

The coolers are beyond overkill. They are nuts! 😂🤣

[@lawks56]

I paid $128.98 dollars total (includes tax and shipping) for the Gigabyte RX6500XT in Dec 2022. I'm hoping this was a fair price. I don't game a lot but I really wanted the DP port capability.

[@TechTesters]

Sounds very fair tbh!

[@psychic_plays]

If I may also add, Ryzen APUs also does not support PCIE 4.0. so beware of that as well.

[@dj4aces]

"If you play this game competitively, you should consider buying a stronger card" The reason this card exists right now is because cards are very difficult and expensive to come by. I'm sure some of the people who purchased this card on day one would rather have purchased a 6800XT or 3080, but can't find one, or they don't want to spend well over US$1000 to acquire one. I've seen and read a number of reviews that are just blind to the fact that these cards are only meant as an in-between, meaning they're largely marketed towards people who have everything else, and just need a GPU to get their system going... *or* someone who needs to replace a damaged and out-of-warranty card and just can't do it with the current market conditions. Reviewers and viewers alike should consider this.

[@samgoff5289]

So your genius excuse for this piece of shit is that it's a hold over, inbetween card...people want 6800xt, so $650 msrp card but settle for this garbage for $250-300 and then buy another card in a year and you spent the same money as just getting a good card now...what a stupid idea

[@dj4aces]

@@samgoff5289 It's adorable that you think I'm making excuses. Simply adorable. People want 6800XTs and 3080s. People aren't gonna get them without dropping a down payment on a bloody car. So yes, this is absolutely an in-between. A card meant to get people's almost completed builds up and running after over a year of waiting. Take your malice and direct it to the companies themselves for not putting out more cards, for not ensuring they're priced reasonably. I'm not the one you're mad at, and you would do well to remember that. Not everyone is privileged enough to have $1300 just laying around waiting to be spent on a stupid expansion card.

[@EricS-uf9mv]

2 & 3-fan HSF models are LOL! This is a 100W laptop gpu. AIB's could slap-on the equivalent of a stock $5 Intel LGA 775 heatsink from an i3/i5 boxed processor and call it a day. But no.., because then they could jack the MSRP by $80-150.

[@TechTesters]

Probably the only money they make on it tbh. But I've seen ok-ish 2-fan models sell for ~210-240 already. That's more than 100 eur below a 1650 :(

[@swaruppatil1326]

Should i upgrade my gtx 1650 to amd rx 6500 xt

[@sulev111]

Get a used gtx1070

[@bogdanjovanovic851]

If you could get it with the MSRP it’s worth, decent performance

[@TechTesters]

Pretty much.

[@tasosarpoudis1604]

i dont think it is complete crap. If you can get your hands on one and its around msrp it is pretty ok. Like an esports card though not much more!!

[@roryodonnell]

...toilet paper launch

[@mayhemman6302]

But is it great for replacing my gtx 970?

[@TechTesters]

I'd probably try to hold out with the 970 a little bit longer :-/

[@mikesilver9285]

did you use the 6500xt to encode gamepl.......... nvm

[@MLWJ1993]

Nah, that was the GTX 1650 😏

[@Sweettamu]

Is it good enough to play American truck simulator

[@BryceStephensKing]

Gigabyte board currently trending at 169.99. You can't beat that price if your only gonna game at 1080p. The environment was completely different at the beginning of the year. Still a good review but would be completely different if this review came out now. you will have to drop your setting to low in certain instances to hit that 60fps.

[@fspeshalxo69]

How the title should be Out of stuck vs out of stuck

[@welcometoronsworld6589]

The 4gb is your new basic mid level gaming gpu so out with the 2GB AND something decent for your mid level gaming. For serious gaming you will need 8GB or more is great for hardcore gamers. So 4GB is good for your basic game play.

[@Manganization]

Mid-level (midrange) has been 6-8gb for some time now. 4gb has been obsolete ever since Watch Dogs 3 came out. A benchmark for this game using this card on Medium would mean it'll have to draw from the system memory. The only reason 4gb is now a thing again is because miners buy out the low-end 8gb models before any budget gamer could get their hands on them.

[@rytechnology4828]

It can be true if you have 16 lanes / fast memory bandwidth.. Because then it can somehow survive when hitting the 4gb vram limit without too much penalty to FPS. But then try using it on PCIE3 device. Every time you will reach the 4GB Vram limit (and you will reach), your FPS will drop drastically. While a similar card with more lanes / better bandwidth can still play the game.

[@welcometoronsworld6589]

@@Manganization exactly right, now gamers prefer 6gb or 8gb over a 4gb. If your games are not high demanding then it will be OK. If games are high demanding then the RX 6500XT is not for extreme gamers. Maybe another GPU that should have stayed off the product line.

[@welcometoronsworld6589]

Right about that a low end RX 400 series. This might be very embarrassing for AMD

[@welcometoronsworld6589]

And it stops them for releasing 2GB GPU

[@justinfriend9686]

so i have a 6500 and i can tell you this card is actually really good for a budget its not no 3080 with 240 fps but its not completely horrible i play apex,valorant, cod, and fortnite and all them go inbetween 80-120 fps so not bad

[@pascaldifolco4611]

It's already bad on your PCie4 tests, and awfully bad in PCIe3 that you didn't test, "thanks" to the stoopid idea of limiting the card to 4 pcie lanes, which wasn't seen since ages and makes absolutely no sense ... But you're the only review to spot & praise the very nice heatsinks, backplate and thermals of the cards, the others were so upset they didn't look :)

[@Mehmet-dn6il]

good

[@MLWJ1993]

Isolated like this it seems an okay GPU, however a RX 580/590 outperforms it while it's pretty much ancient right now... This really is a GPU one should only buy if you have a new system (PCIe 4.0!) & are really struggling to find anything else within your budget that's better than this hunk a dunk.

[@TechTesters]

Yeah, it's not great, but there are some situations where it might be "just good enough" or the "least bad" option :(

[@AlistairMaxwell77]

580s are going for 400$ on ebay . I can buy this brand new for 230$ usd in stock .

[@MLWJ1993]

@@AlistairMaxwell77 RX 580's (8gb) are available here for ~€300 might even be able to haggle on the used market for less than that... The 6500XT is available here for the same price 😅

[@SocialMoney595]

Should compare with 5500xt 1650 super

[@TechTesters]

I would have added the 1650 Super if I could have gotten one. No-one around me had one, and there have been no 1650 Super cards for sale here in months.

[@techamritshorts]

right

[@benc3825]

It’s a brand new GPU and a tiny 107mm2 die. They can produce 564 of these per wafer, and with 4GB miners won’t buy it. It isn’t a great GPU, but it is going to be in stock a ton more than any other GPU. I could have bought a 6500xt at $200 for the hour after launch. This is a hold over card so you can sell your old dying GPU or selling your newer GPU for a profit. This is the Navi 24 die, it is originally for laptop only, they just pushed it super hard to work for desktops. That is the reason it is limited to only 4 PCIe lanes. Sure, you can buy a old GPU, but when will they die? Not be supported anymore? Regarding the RTX 3050 8GB… why do you think they put 8GB? Because miners will eat these up in the mining SKUs, what reason would Nvidia have to sell the GA106 die cut down 33-40%? They are going to sell those GA106 dies for their CMP and laptops. How many 2060 12GB have you seen? Nearly 0 because it is a mining card.

[@TechTesters]

I really hope it plays out like this and this ends up anywhere near it's MSRP. If it does, I think my conclusion that this might just be your best budget option (for now, given the rest of the market) will hold up.

[@onoffgeorg9828]

6500 xt are about 270 euros new, so it seems prices dropping down

[@cowabunga2455]

I really wanted to see how it performs in PUBG. But alas.