My Week With The Radeon RX 6500 XT...

Today we're taking a look at the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT with both my old PCIe 3.0 system as well as my newer PCIe 4.0 PC. This card seems to have escaped inflated prices here in the U.K, and it's regularly in stock, but can it offer an enjoyable gaming experience?

Thanks to Ebuyer (Check out their range of AMD cards here):

6500 XT Used In This Video:

0:00 Introduction and Specs
1:52 Test Setups - PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0
2:44 The Witcher 3
3:33 Far Cry 6
4:38 Cyberpunk 2077
5:37 Forza Horizon 5
6:40 GTA V
7:34 Halo Infinite
8:27 Ray Tracing Test - Cyberpunk 2077
9:24 Conclusion

[MultiYippee]

The fact that this card escaped the scalpers makes it quite a nice choice for those looking to upgrade from an old GPU without spending too much

[SJ-tygb]

For £200 or thereabouts in a market where other new cards cost very much more this card's great for those who've been stuck on something like a 1050 Ti or lower. Not everyone can afford the latest and greatest or is happy risking problems with a second hand card. In that context for a lot of people the RX 6500 XT makes sense.

[darthwiizius]

I kind of like ray tracing at low resolution, it's the VHS of video gaming.

[lapin-rouge]

Honestly, I’m happy about it. It was the perfect stop-gap card for my wife as she decided to start getting into PC gaming late last year. She is starting with casual games, so by the time she needs something stronger, I should hopefully have a shot at getting something better!

[UncleMikeRetro]

Yet ANOTHER reason to hang onto my GTX 1070!

[JustekGaming]

I'd be interested to see how well it does against some older cards, here in South Africa this card works out cheaper than a gtx 1650 and gtx 1050ti yet with pcie gen 4 seems to be able to out perform both

[gdltito]

In Mexico, Where I live it´s at about the same price, some times a bit cheapper than the 1050Ti. So I think it´s a great option.

[arianoooamari]

Actually this card is a smart move by AMD. According to the actual situation with scalpers and miners this card is absolutely not an option for these people. But for games on 1080p it is indeed a great card.

[TechDudeTerry]

i just installed this card in my machine. i was excited to get it at a fairly descent price. i am not much into buying a more higher end card. so i thought i would try this one. i noticed it only had two ports on it. thats ok. i do not care about installing two monitors anyways. i do like that it does load up pretty quickly. i did however had to go into the software of radeon and change fan settings at first load up. i am not really interested in benchmarks or frame rates. just the fact i can play games or watch videos is my only concern. i do like this graphics card. i hope it will last for a good 3 years till new ones come out that are ten times better. for now it is a good card for the price. i am enjoying it. thanks for the video

[decline.enjoyer]

This video caused me to click subscribe. I seriously like the way you talk, the aspects you cover, and the visual fidelity on gameplay is very good.

[AndreFreitas]

The only "new" GPU in market that mantains a price near msrp.

[aidenswartz]

I chose the XFX 6500 xt over the GTX 1650 because I'm using an i5 11400 with PCIE Gen 4. I'm glad I did. Also the GTX 1650 was over 10% more expensive, doesn't make sense...

[digginguphardware_lx]

I actually got the same sapphire card about 2 days ago, for now I can't complain coming from a r9 380 2gb version from sapphire. My actual system is quite older: i5 4570, 2×4 gb ddr3 1600, asus h81m-e, samsung 850 evo 250 gb ssd and a qtb WD red hdd. Out of the box it was less than average in userbenchmark but a little tweak to cpu clock and memory helped it out. I'm not the super gamer who plays on a ton of different games but still in the games I did test it performed better than expected. On paper it should have been around 60% better performing than my r9 380 but in warzone for example it was double, guess rdna2 really gets the job done.
The system obviously runs pcie gen3 but yet seems pretty fine to me so far.
The price was a bit higher than I wanted but still 248 euros seems better compared to the nvidia counterpart, overall the experience is good with the only drawback being the lack of encoding.
Fun fact: the gpu itself is so tiny that it heats up and cools down in a matter of seconds, under a heavy synthetic load the fan goes from 0 to 100 and I think that's based on the junction temperature sensor, but it needs just a few seconds to be back to 26°C

[JCBassCovers]

My friend has a PC she got with one of those in it and has been having a good time. She mostly plays Genshin Impact and some MMO's so it's worked out well for her.

[ajlainez]

I got this under retail at mirco center for 215$ after tax I can’t complain it’s a huge upgrade from my rx460 2gb.

[Thommygun-qvum]

I liked to see the extra effort for the 2 testbenches. Great video!

[jontradesforex]

I think the other reviewers really went in too hard on this card. Got it for £199 online (BRAND NEW) as I have looked for a card for awhile, cards on ebay are going for £300/400+. I bought one to have for my sons gaming pc. It was running a poor nvidia 710 its terrible, but this has really impressed me for the money. I dont care for the streaming stuff, my son just wants to game. And for that reason its been fantastic. Running it on an ultrawide monitor with freesync and its buttery smooth. I love the card and my son does too :)

[electricalbatross]

Don't let the bad reviews get you down if you bought this. People criticize it having similar performance to much older RX cards, but neglect to mention it operates at over 100 watts less, meaning it won't get as hot or use as much power, and will last longer. They complain about the lack of h.264 and 265 encoding, but that really only applies if you're recording/streaming, and if you have a good CPU then it's a moot point. It's a gaming card for a 1080p gamer who just wants a PC instead of a Console, it'll still play most games with modest settings. Sure it's a hard ask between 200-300, but a slightly better card is 400-500+, so it's not worth the price hike unless you actually make money streaming.

[krazycharlie]

AMD: "Here's our newest budget GPU!".
Gamers: "Is ti good enough for mining?".
AMD: "No. We nerfed it specifically so that miners wouldn't want to touch it even with a 5 feet pole".
Gamers: "Alright, we don't want it either".

[KingVulpes]

I'm glad you enabled raytracing because i been searching youtube for a video that covers it and your the first one i've seen that's done it