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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review – GoodTechMaster

Posted on December 29, 2022December 30, 2022 By Eriksson No Comments on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review – GoodTechMaster

I am writing this article to provide you with my review on the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card. I will give you my overview of the GPU itself and a list of games with respective performance expectations you should have.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review

The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is a good low-end budget graphics card. It’s going to allow you to meet or exceed the system requirements of most modern AAA game titles, like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Elden Ring. You can see the GPU Engine Specs below and then compare it to some of the most popular games.

GPU Engine Specs
Game Frequency (MHz)2650 
Compute Units16
Ray Accelerators16
Memory TypeGDDR6
VRAM8GB
GPU Engine Specs for AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

As you can see from the list of games below, most require only 8GB of VRAM at the highest. Once you get to Ultra 4K and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 / Warzone 2 will you see a requirement for 10GB of VRAM. You should be looking at a completely different graphics card though if you plan on doing any 4K gaming.

System Requirements for Call of Duty: Warzone

Call of Duty: Warzone System Requirements
Call of Duty: Warzone System Requirements

Fortnite System Requirements

System Requirements for Fortnite
System Requirements for Fortnite

System Requirements for COD MW2 / Warzone 2

System Requirements for COD MW2 / Warzone 2
System Requirements for COD MW2 / Warzone 2

Performance Review – AMD Radeon 6500 XT

The AMD Radeon 6500 XT will deliver much better than the performance of the AMD Radeon 6400, which is one step down. In fact, it has double the VRAM. A true comparable graphics card would be NVIDIA’s RTX 3050 graphics card. However, you will be paying more for an NVIDIA card over an AMD card.

You should expect to be able to play modern AAA games at high performance on 1080P resolution. You should also be able to play modern AAA games at 1440P resolution, however don’t expect to get much more than 60-80 FPS. You will need to temper your graphics quality settings a little to gain more performance impacts. You could probably play some games on 4K resolution, but this is not a GPU that plays 4K well. For that you should be looking at a higher level AMD card, such as the 6750 XT or 6800 XT.

Games like Elden Ring, Red Dead Redemption 2, Far Cry 6, and other graphics-intensive games will have a harder time reaching 60 FPS using high graphics settings on 1080P resolution. The AMD Radeon 6500 XT would struggle on 1440P with these games.

Ideal Game Settings Review for AMD Radeon 6500 XT

Below is a list of games and the resolution you should expect to play with their graphics settings for the Radeon 6500 XT.

GameIdeal ResolutionsIdeal Graphics Settings
Elden Ring1080PMedium-High
Modern Warfare 2 / Warzone 2.01080PHigh-Ultra
Fortnite1080PHigh-Ultra
Halo: Infinite1080PMedium-High
CS:GO1080PHigh-Ultra
PUBG1080PHigh-Ultra
Minecraft1080PHigh-Ultra
Red Dead Redemption 21080PMedium-High
Far Cry 61080PMedium-High
Dota 21080PUltra
Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5)1080PHigh-Ultra
World of WarCraft1080PHigh-Ultra
CyberPunk 20771080PMedium-High
RUST1080PHigh-Ultra
Civilization VI1080PHigh-Ultra
Overwatch 21080PHigh-Ultra
League of Legends1080PHigh-Ultra
Valorant1080PHigh-Ultra
Battlefield V1080PHigh-Ultra
Team Fortress 21080PHigh-Ultra
Apex Legends1080PHigh-Ultra
Lost Ark1080PHigh-Ultra
War Thunder1080PHigh-Ultra
New World1080P Medium-High
Terraria1080PHigh-Ultra
Battlefield 11080PHigh-Ultra
Unturned1080PHigh-Ultra
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