Your definition of the 'ideal user' was exactly me. Casual gamers like higher FPS over jacking up the settings, for shooters and open-world-style games. I have this GPU partnered with the Intel i3-10105F and I've found that you can mix and match settings as you need depending on the requirements of the game you're playing, and you'll have no issues. Great honest review and really well put together. Thanks!
Thanks! Yes, it takes a bit of tweaking in each game to get the best result (dial that VRAM usage in perfectly) but it can push a lot of frames if it's not being straggled by its bandwidth limitations.
Man, you deserve 100K subscribers or more. This content is stellar. Similar to the craziness of Hardware Unboxed benchmark testing. I thoroughly enjoyed this review, and even though I own a 6600XT already, you made this review REALLY interesting through the focus on real-life performance. It's a peculiar card with its 64-bit memory bus and heavy reliance of Infinity cache, but you definitely brought a review with a lot of depth and understanding of the hardware (Unlike most techtubers which primarily focus on running synthetic "Ultra" benchmark test suites). If anyone consider this card, I'd be sure to link to your review. :) It's a flawed card, but with the right circumstances it's honestly not that bad.
Thanks! I enjoyed making this one and it's the kind of stuff I want to do more of, but I'm starting to think I need to get a proper camera so I can get better footage of the hardware and put my face in the video. The greatest flaw is this; it's an entry level product, but you need expert level knowledge to get the most out of it.
@@reto i find this video useful as I have 5600G which limitation is PCIe 3.0 and 3.0 is a bottleneck for 6500 XT. So THIS video is clearing up things when this GPU is in question whenever I should buy it or not. BIG THANKS!
I bought rx 6500 xt a week ago and completely satisfied with performance it gives me on ryzen 7 3700x and pci 4.0, but i noticed that in elden ring on high settings when im riding Torrent the grass is loading in front of me (maybe memory bandwith causing this problem). It's my one and only problem with this graphics card. And if you want to do tests in elden i recommend you find the most demanding place in the game. In my opinion its the location where it's always raining and you have small black monsters that oneshots you and they drop 1k of souls every time you kill them. I think you can find this place by googling "how to farm souls in elden ring". Also thanks for your content and i hope to see more videos about 6500 xt.
I didn't notice the grass loading problem, I will keep an eye out for that. I will check out that location; thank you. Although since the game is pretty new I picked that spot in front of the gate because you can reach it quickly and there are no spoilers. It is a pretty good spot, it's not the most demanding one, but it's one of the more demanding ones. And yes, I'm aware that the rain takes another 10% in some cases. There will be a lot more RX 6500 XT content. Appreciate you sharing your experience, if there's anything curious you've come across, let me know :)
My rtx 3060 an older card can run crysis 1 remastered at can you run crysis setting at 1440p and hits 60fps, fact this older card can run circles around the newer 6500 xt is embrassing
Great review man, i was only hearing terrible opinions of this card but only compared to other higher end GPUs, without actually showing frame time and frame pacing (not even overall playability), i grabbed one for around 130$ on sale and i'm waiting for it to arrive, as it is for a gift for someone who has only ever played on integrated graphics, this will surely be a massive upgrade.
Thanks :) That's why I made this review (and others on this channel), it's not helpful to compare this to the MSRP value of an RTX 3060 Ti or whatever. People looking to buy this don't want to spend RTX 3060 Ti money on a GPU; people looking to buy an RX 6500 XT primarily want to know how well it can actually run games at reasonable settings.
im glad there are youtubers like you that deliver the full picture but how do you only have 1k sub if I watched the video then gessed how many sub do you have I would've said 250k any way this really helped you're amazing and keep going
Awesome! Thank you :) Should I give it another notch upwards? I know a lot of viewers use them. I usually do a script so I can copy-paste it for caption; UA-cam has an auto-sync feature and it does a pretty good job at lining it up with the audio. I will look into getting translated captions when the channel is larger (Portuguese and Spanish would be the first ones).
Ah, such a good review of a graphics card. The rx 6500 xt really provides a good insight into how pcie bandwidth and vram are tied to performance. Btw the particular model I've ordered does not come with the power limit slider. Can it be overclocked without setting a higher power limit? Since on most games it already consumes less power than you'd expect
Thanks, I'm glad it's helpful. Maybe your card is already set to the maximum power target by the manufacturer. You can still use AMD Adrenaline to OC, just make sure it's stable.
Great video, of really good quality. I got this card just now for about 100U$ and it was a better choice than an used rx 580, despite it this card has a lot of cons I only need it for a lot of games that don't require more. Thanks!
It's at $150-$160 ish for this card now, at least where i live in, and it can do Elden Ring at high or med settings at 1080p, that is good enough for me xD
Nice review. One thing to mention is that if you go with an intel 11 or 12 gen CPU (non-f series), then you get PCIe 4.0 and can stream with Quicksync in stuff like OBS, even in the budget / low midrange tier (12100 or 12400). This mitigates both the bandwidth and encoder issues, which seem to be the two biggest issues people have with the card. Kinda odd that intel's platform on the low end is a better match for AMD's value card, but it's strange times we live in.
Absolutely, yes. I planned on doing a build with an 11th gen CPU; I was able to snag a high end MSI Z490 board (one of those that have PCIe 4 support) for $60 second-hand. But the 11th non-f CPUs are hard to come by around here and it's a shame that the 10105 (11th Gen refresh) doesn't have PCIe 4. What stings a bit is that even the cheap 12th gen boards are like $75 to $80 so for a price/performance setup it makes more sense to go 12400 but then you are spending like $100 more on the build than you'd like. Another option (and I had a video on that for the Vega 7, but ended up deleting it because it did super badly) is chucking in a old nvidia Quadro card (e.g. K4000) and then you can use NVenc in OBS.
Really good video, I got this gpu when it released as a gift because I really wanted to play Elden RIng and this was the cheapest option I plan on changing it next year to most likely a 6600 but for now I'll stick with it I didn't expect a Warframe test because it's not really popular on benchmarks but yeah I have everything maxed out and the game runs great, though in the 3 open worlds it struggles a little more and my temps get way higher than normal
Hi, 6500 XT happens to be the only reasonably priced budget card in India (about 22K INR, hoping to buy it for like 18K INR in a month or two over price drops or a RX 6400 if it launches here at a low price). I am currently using a PC with i5 12400 and I don't plan on streaming so 6500 XT seems like an alright option. But, I have heard that it performs relatively worse when it comes to productivity tasks like Blender or whatever. I started learning Blender just a few days ago and it's kind of okay by rendering stuff with the CPU, but will the 6500 XT be alright enough for Blender tasks? Or should I just put a hole in my pocket and go ahead for the RX 6600 (Currently 37K INR, hoping to buy for about 34K INR so in a month or two)? Been following your videos cause I wanted to buy a 5600G initially xD. Switched over to buying the i5 12400 though. 5600G is a bit pricey here.
I don't know how it does in Blender, they may have some numbers on that in the Linus Tech Tips video. But I guess it's way faster than the CPU. Intel 11th Gen i5, 12th Gen i3/i5, and the 5600(X) really are the ideal CPUs to pair with the 6500 XT (or 6400). I'm genuinely excited to get an RX 6400, they make low-profile versions and the card doesn't need a 6-pin. I've seen you around here ;) Are you playing games on the 12400 iGPU, how is that?
@@reto Oooh, will have a look at that video, thanks! And yep, I am playing a few games on the 12400 iGPU, it does decently well on the games I am currently interested in. Just Cause 3: 900p Low - 40-50 FPS GTA V: 1080p Normal - 40-50 FPS Valorant: 1080p Low - 150 ish FPS avg Rocket League: 1080p Med - 50 ish FPS Watch Dogs: 900p Low - 40-50 FPS Not too bad, it's good enough for me till I can get a GPU. Definitely a huge upgrade from my laptop that has a AMD A12-9720P. EDIT: Doesn't seem to fare as well as one who would want it to. 6500 XT seems to be a great GPU for 1080p gaming right now but definitely not so much for productivity, I shall try to buy the RX 6600 @_@.
Those are not bad results, especially GTA 5. When I was testing Just Cause 3 on the Vega, I was getting a pretty solid average FPS but the frametimes were horrendous. Alright - hehe. I'm happy with my 1080Ti, and honestly, it's overkill for my current needs. If the RX 6500 XT had an encoder I'd switch to it.
@@reto I can't for the life of me get the frametimes on the overlay for some reason, but from eyeing it, Just Cause 3 seemed to run smooth enough without any noticable stutters. 1080 Ti is a monster though, why would you want to downgrade to something else? Cause of the TDP?
I've been having that problem (no overlay) in Skyrim. Not sure what I messed up; it used to work. I mostly just do work and editing on my workstation these days, if I play a game on it, it's Doom Eternal; That's about it. So, not sure what I'm going to do, might sell the 1080Ti and keep the 3060 for my own rig after I've reviewed the 3060.
VRAM and PCIe bandwidth. Doom Eternal is extremely optimized but actually requires relatively large amounts of VRAM and also aggressively uses the PCIe bus which is only x4 on this card.
If i'm using i3-10105f with RX 6500 XT, are the fps difference between my i3 and your 5600g Will be completely different? Or is it just slightly different like maybe below 10% ?
It will be almost the same in almost every game as long as you have two sticks of RAM. Maybe turn crowd density to medium instead of high in Cyberpunk. You may see a slight difference in Shadow of the Tomb Raider in the Hub-Areas with lots of NPCs.
Did you have data on how SAM affected frametimes and/or 1% lows? Meaning while perhaps the overall average framerate isn't improved much, is frame consistency any better?
I didn't collect that as it would require an insane number of runs to make a sound statistical statement about it. In most games, SAM improves performance a little bit, but in others, it completely tanks it (HZD, ACO) on the RX 6500 XT (probably also on the RX 6400). Of course, the better average is likely accompanied by better percentile lows.
Hi Davi, I have seen it, but I don't have it yet. I hope I can grow the channel fairly quickly so with Patron support and Ad-$ I will be able to buy new games on release and catch up with some releases I don't have yet.
What a good video thanks man That's really helpful I have a question gtx 1650 and rx 6500 xt are same price 200$ can you do a comparison video between those or what it is better for me I have i3 8100 with 1280x1024 res monitor I am going to play red dead and god of war and elden ring which card has best overall performance and resell value and again thanks for that video
To be honest, I think your CPU may have trouble keeping up in those games with either of those GPUs ;) The Radeon card is faster, the Nvidia card has more features. Hard to say which will retain better resell value.
I'm going to look into some productivity stuff in the future, but not any of the Adobe software. I may do some machine learning, code compile, code execution, blender, and video rendering.
10400 only supports PCIe 3.0, it will work very similarly to Ryzen 5600G. i5 11400 (on 500 series MB), i3 12100 or Ryzen 5600(X) are better pairings because they support PCIe 4.0.
I am looking through comparisons between gaming desktop PCs to see which is better and i am on a budget mostly saving up rest of my money In your perspective which is better: SEVEN RYZEN 7 5700G with 16GB DDR4 RAM with 256GB SSD 1TB HDD AMD or AIR LITE WHITE RYZEN 3 4300G QUAD CORE RADEON RX 6500 XT?
also, since you mentioned overclocking the card gave better results in pcie 3.0, i might try to overclock it i have a 700W psu and the 6500 XT is a 3 fan model
Hello sir , i have a pcie 4.0 Rx 6500 Xt, Ryzen 5 3400G, asus a320m-k, 8x2 2666 RAM In valorant GPU usage won't use more than 40% (150-200 fps) i am having big drops in Fortnite , Directx 11 + 12 (30 - 120 fps) CS Go comp settings also dropping
When using Ryzen 3400G you are on PCIe 3 not PCIe 4. If GPU usage is low in Valorant, I assume your CPU can't keep up. Try Fortnite in Peformance mode.
@@reto I had The same problem. I play RedDeadRedemption2, 1080 high/medium at 60fps. It uses The 100% and 2800mHz But when i want play GTA V it only uses 30-40% GPU and low fps Sometimes 50-70fps Never uses The 100% CPU. The same happen with other Games. (Sorry for My basic and primitive English lol) My PC: Rx 6500 Xt Ryzen 5 3400G ASUS A520m A II 8x2 3200 SsD 480gb
The fail of this card still is that most of its target audience will be on PCIe 3.0 -- and will be for quite some time. PCie4.0 is quite new, considering that Intel as the big dog started supporting it in 2021ish. Pairing 4GB with 4 PCIe lanes in 2022 is a major mistake. I buy the reasoning why they went with but 4GB. But this combination I'm not buying. They clearly see this as a market where most customers care about nothing else but a lower price. (As an ado, despite this card being stripped off literally everything, it still consumes over 100W of power too). I've been on the lookout to replace my 1050ti (which had 4GB of RAM six years ago already, plus full bandwith with 16 lanes). But this is definitely not going to be it. Whilst as a (tactical) CRPG fan I didn't play overly many graphic blockbusters on it. But those I did, they all were pretty fine on medium to high, from Dishonored 2 to Kingdom Come Deliverance to most recent even still Elden Ring at 40-45fps medium. I highly doubt that the 6500XT is even half the same value. Not on PCIe 3.0 anyway and neither on 4.0. You buy one today and you need to replace it tomorrow. Nvidia of course are no better. See more recent their RTX 3060 8GB, which performance-wise is more like a (theoretical) 3050ti. It will be interesting to see how both AMD and Nvidia will operate on the lower end market with their current generations...
You have to keep in mind that this was developed as a mobile GPU. It doesn't have the encoder because that's on 6000 series mobile CPUs, and it's x4 lanes because that will use less power; that is not something you can just change. They already had the 6600, and yields are probably too good for them to cut that down and make it the 6500. It's not that bad on PCIe 3 (on average, still 25% faster than the GDDR6 GTX 1650), but in some games, it really suffers on PCIe 3 (for example, Cyberpunk, Guardians of the Galaxy). If you want to replace your GTX 1050 Ti for a good value, you can check out the GTX 1660 Super, RX 5700 XT, and RX 6600m on Aliexpress.
@@reto The RX 6600 would be definitely my card to go to right now. It's multiple times as fast as the RX 6500 over here, at ~150% the price. And that's just the raw rendering power -- the 8GB ensure it will last much longer. It's so much better value, I'd even go for a used GTX 1060 6GB over a RX 6500XT any time. There are a few custom 8GB RX 6500XT appearing in shops, btw. But they cost as much as an RX6600 basically. Both low end and high end are often the worst in terms of bank for your buck. On the high end, price for costumers doesn't matter, so Nvidia and AMD take this into account. On the low end meanwhile, price is (almost) the only thing that matters, so...
@@reto the cheapest rx 6600 in my country it's 338 dollars and the 6500xt it's 225 dollars, the rtx 3050 it's overpriced so i doesn't even matter, and the rx 6400 it's like 184 dollars but it's too weak.
ok, that's not too bad then :) If your CPU supports PCIe 4, you get your money's worth on the 6500 XT; if it's PCIe 3, I might try to save up for the 6600. Don't go for the 6400.
@@reto i was thinking of upgrading my pc for warzone, i3 12100f, b660m ds3h ddr4, rx 6500 xt, 2x8gb ram 3200mhz cl16, corsair cx450m and a kingston nv1 for windows and apps/programs.
@@reto I am looking through comparisons between gaming desktop PCs to see which is better and i am on a budget mostly saving up rest of my money In your perspective which is better: SEVEN RYZEN 7 5700G with 16GB DDR4 RAM with 256GB SSD 1TB HDD AMD or AIR LITE WHITE RYZEN 3 4300G QUAD CORE RADEON RX 6500 XT?
:) Awesome, hope you enjoy! I've had a lot of fun with the card and I'd use it in my own workstation if it wasn't for the lack of encoder which I need to make videos.
Your definition of the 'ideal user' was exactly me. Casual gamers like higher FPS over jacking up the settings, for shooters and open-world-style games. I have this GPU partnered with the Intel i3-10105F and I've found that you can mix and match settings as you need depending on the requirements of the game you're playing, and you'll have no issues. Great honest review and really well put together. Thanks!
Thanks! Yes, it takes a bit of tweaking in each game to get the best result (dial that VRAM usage in perfectly) but it can push a lot of frames if it's not being straggled by its bandwidth limitations.
damn, it shock me when i scroll down and see the 1.6 subscriber.
thank you for the hardwork man
haha, when I made this we didn't even have 1k subscribers ;)
Awesome video! Love the balanced critique and you tinkering with settings that fits the cards. Shows the true worth of the card. Cheers!
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Man, you deserve 100K subscribers or more. This content is stellar. Similar to the craziness of Hardware Unboxed benchmark testing. I thoroughly enjoyed this review, and even though I own a 6600XT already, you made this review REALLY interesting through the focus on real-life performance. It's a peculiar card with its 64-bit memory bus and heavy reliance of Infinity cache, but you definitely brought a review with a lot of depth and understanding of the hardware (Unlike most techtubers which primarily focus on running synthetic "Ultra" benchmark test suites). If anyone consider this card, I'd be sure to link to your review. :) It's a flawed card, but with the right circumstances it's honestly not that bad.
Thanks! I enjoyed making this one and it's the kind of stuff I want to do more of, but I'm starting to think I need to get a proper camera so I can get better footage of the hardware and put my face in the video. The greatest flaw is this; it's an entry level product, but you need expert level knowledge to get the most out of it.
@@reto i find this video useful as I have 5600G which limitation is PCIe 3.0 and 3.0 is a bottleneck for 6500 XT. So THIS video is clearing up things when this GPU is in question whenever I should buy it or not. BIG THANKS!
@@prosecanlik4296 glad it's useful :)
I bought rx 6500 xt a week ago and completely satisfied with performance it gives me on ryzen 7 3700x and pci 4.0, but i noticed that in elden ring on high settings when im riding Torrent the grass is loading in front of me (maybe memory bandwith causing this problem). It's my one and only problem with this graphics card. And if you want to do tests in elden i recommend you find the most demanding place in the game. In my opinion its the location where it's always raining and you have small black monsters that oneshots you and they drop 1k of souls every time you kill them. I think you can find this place by googling "how to farm souls in elden ring". Also thanks for your content and i hope to see more videos about 6500 xt.
I didn't notice the grass loading problem, I will keep an eye out for that. I will check out that location; thank you. Although since the game is pretty new I picked that spot in front of the gate because you can reach it quickly and there are no spoilers. It is a pretty good spot, it's not the most demanding one, but it's one of the more demanding ones. And yes, I'm aware that the rain takes another 10% in some cases. There will be a lot more RX 6500 XT content. Appreciate you sharing your experience, if there's anything curious you've come across, let me know :)
are you using hdd? the grass loading maybe because of the slow disk, not the ram or vram gpu
@@gleipnirfenrir 1 tb ssd, maybe this problem was already fixed at the time me writing this, it's been 3 months since then
My rtx 3060 an older card can run crysis 1 remastered at can you run crysis setting at 1440p and hits 60fps, fact this older card can run circles around the newer 6500 xt is embrassing
Great review man, i was only hearing terrible opinions of this card but only compared to other higher end GPUs, without actually showing frame time and frame pacing (not even overall playability), i grabbed one for around 130$ on sale and i'm waiting for it to arrive, as it is for a gift for someone who has only ever played on integrated graphics, this will surely be a massive upgrade.
Thanks :) That's why I made this review (and others on this channel), it's not helpful to compare this to the MSRP value of an RTX 3060 Ti or whatever. People looking to buy this don't want to spend RTX 3060 Ti money on a GPU; people looking to buy an RX 6500 XT primarily want to know how well it can actually run games at reasonable settings.
fantastic video, im amaze how much hard work you put on this videos but your analysis are amazing, keep goin man !!
Thanks, will do!
This video was amazing, you deserve a lot more views, great job and keep the hard work
Thanks, Appreciate it! d
im glad there are youtubers like you that deliver the full picture but how do you only have 1k sub if I watched the video then gessed how many sub do you have I would've said 250k
any way this really helped you're amazing and keep going
Appreciate it :) When I made this video, the channel had fewer than 1k subscribers xD I'll keep at it! Thanks!
Yet another top notch video. Audio is better now!
Edit: also I really apreciate the english closed captions
Awesome! Thank you :) Should I give it another notch upwards?
I know a lot of viewers use them. I usually do a script so I can copy-paste it for caption; UA-cam has an auto-sync feature and it does a pretty good job at lining it up with the audio. I will look into getting translated captions when the channel is larger (Portuguese and Spanish would be the first ones).
@@reto That would be awesome
A long awaited video
I may experiment with doing the voice over for some games as I'm playing, I think that could cut down on turn-around time significantly ;)
@@reto okay, but please turn on the subtitles
@@callmetatan I guess those are still processing ;) I'll check on it.
Yeap, it's still processing. It usually doesn't take this long :D
As always a pretty good video, you deserve more subscribers for sure
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Really nice video! I just get a ex6500 xt for my eife to upgrade the oooold hd 7750 and for its necessities was really perfect!
Thanks! Yes, that's a substantial upgrade :)
Ah, such a good review of a graphics card. The rx 6500 xt really provides a good insight into how pcie bandwidth and vram are tied to performance. Btw the particular model I've ordered does not come with the power limit slider. Can it be overclocked without setting a higher power limit? Since on most games it already consumes less power than you'd expect
Thanks, I'm glad it's helpful. Maybe your card is already set to the maximum power target by the manufacturer. You can still use AMD Adrenaline to OC, just make sure it's stable.
Best RX 6500 XT benchmark ive seen, great job!
Thank you! I enjoyed making this :)
VERY GOOD VIDEO BRO!!!!!!
Appreciate it!
very nice review
thanks :)
Great video, of really good quality. I got this card just now for about 100U$ and it was a better choice than an used rx 580, despite it this card has a lot of cons I only need it for a lot of games that don't require more.
Thanks!
Glad you liked it :) Another nice feature of the 6500 XT is that it uses like 4W when idle :)
@@reto Yeah indeed, I got the itx version with 1 fan, but it runs quite well.
It's at $150-$160 ish for this card now, at least where i live in, and it can do Elden Ring at high or med settings at 1080p, that is good enough for me xD
Yeap, it's dropped a good bit, pair it with a PCIe 4 system if you can. The i3 12100f, i5 11400f or R5 5600 are excellent options ;)
Nice review. One thing to mention is that if you go with an intel 11 or 12 gen CPU (non-f series), then you get PCIe 4.0 and can stream with Quicksync in stuff like OBS, even in the budget / low midrange tier (12100 or 12400). This mitigates both the bandwidth and encoder issues, which seem to be the two biggest issues people have with the card. Kinda odd that intel's platform on the low end is a better match for AMD's value card, but it's strange times we live in.
Absolutely, yes. I planned on doing a build with an 11th gen CPU; I was able to snag a high end MSI Z490 board (one of those that have PCIe 4 support) for $60 second-hand. But the 11th non-f CPUs are hard to come by around here and it's a shame that the 10105 (11th Gen refresh) doesn't have PCIe 4. What stings a bit is that even the cheap 12th gen boards are like $75 to $80 so for a price/performance setup it makes more sense to go 12400 but then you are spending like $100 more on the build than you'd like. Another option (and I had a video on that for the Vega 7, but ended up deleting it because it did super badly) is chucking in a old nvidia Quadro card (e.g. K4000) and then you can use NVenc in OBS.
Does i5 11 f series supports pcie 4.0?
Really good video, I got this gpu when it released as a gift because I really wanted to play Elden RIng and this was the cheapest option
I plan on changing it next year to most likely a 6600 but for now I'll stick with it
I didn't expect a Warframe test because it's not really popular on benchmarks but yeah I have everything maxed out and the game runs great, though in the 3 open worlds it struggles a little more and my temps get way higher than normal
Thanks :) The 6500 XT does a good job in Elden Ring at 1080p, that's for sure. Maybe your CPU is heating up the chassis in the open world areas
Very good review
Thanks!
Respect man!
Thanks Ion!
hello there will you recommend the 5600g + RX 6500 XT?my friend had the PCIE 4 capable motherboard but it was bottlenecked by 5600g PCIE 3
No, I don't. New Intel i3 is better with the 6500 XT.
Hi, 6500 XT happens to be the only reasonably priced budget card in India (about 22K INR, hoping to buy it for like 18K INR in a month or two over price drops or a RX 6400 if it launches here at a low price). I am currently using a PC with i5 12400 and I don't plan on streaming so 6500 XT seems like an alright option. But, I have heard that it performs relatively worse when it comes to productivity tasks like Blender or whatever.
I started learning Blender just a few days ago and it's kind of okay by rendering stuff with the CPU, but will the 6500 XT be alright enough for Blender tasks? Or should I just put a hole in my pocket and go ahead for the RX 6600 (Currently 37K INR, hoping to buy for about 34K INR so in a month or two)?
Been following your videos cause I wanted to buy a 5600G initially xD. Switched over to buying the i5 12400 though. 5600G is a bit pricey here.
I don't know how it does in Blender, they may have some numbers on that in the Linus Tech Tips video. But I guess it's way faster than the CPU.
Intel 11th Gen i5, 12th Gen i3/i5, and the 5600(X) really are the ideal CPUs to pair with the 6500 XT (or 6400). I'm genuinely excited to get an RX 6400, they make low-profile versions and the card doesn't need a 6-pin. I've seen you around here ;) Are you playing games on the 12400 iGPU, how is that?
@@reto Oooh, will have a look at that video, thanks!
And yep, I am playing a few games on the 12400 iGPU, it does decently well on the games I am currently interested in.
Just Cause 3: 900p Low - 40-50 FPS
GTA V: 1080p Normal - 40-50 FPS
Valorant: 1080p Low - 150 ish FPS avg
Rocket League: 1080p Med - 50 ish FPS
Watch Dogs: 900p Low - 40-50 FPS
Not too bad, it's good enough for me till I can get a GPU. Definitely a huge upgrade from my laptop that has a AMD A12-9720P.
EDIT: Doesn't seem to fare as well as one who would want it to. 6500 XT seems to be a great GPU for 1080p gaming right now but definitely not so much for productivity, I shall try to buy the RX 6600 @_@.
Those are not bad results, especially GTA 5. When I was testing Just Cause 3 on the Vega, I was getting a pretty solid average FPS but the frametimes were horrendous.
Alright - hehe. I'm happy with my 1080Ti, and honestly, it's overkill for my current needs. If the RX 6500 XT had an encoder I'd switch to it.
@@reto I can't for the life of me get the frametimes on the overlay for some reason, but from eyeing it, Just Cause 3 seemed to run smooth enough without any noticable stutters.
1080 Ti is a monster though, why would you want to downgrade to something else? Cause of the TDP?
I've been having that problem (no overlay) in Skyrim. Not sure what I messed up; it used to work.
I mostly just do work and editing on my workstation these days, if I play a game on it, it's Doom Eternal; That's about it. So, not sure what I'm going to do, might sell the 1080Ti and keep the 3060 for my own rig after I've reviewed the 3060.
Why is there such a big diffrence in fps on Doom Eternal between the low and medium settings?
VRAM and PCIe bandwidth. Doom Eternal is extremely optimized but actually requires relatively large amounts of VRAM and also aggressively uses the PCIe bus which is only x4 on this card.
FSR 2.0 on red dead redemption jumps it up to a playable card for that game, impressive at only 4gb of vram and 80w.
Yes, just don't turn on SAM, it will kill FPS.
@@reto Makes it better for me.
If i'm using i3-10105f with RX 6500 XT, are the fps difference between my i3 and your 5600g Will be completely different? Or is it just slightly different like maybe below 10% ?
It will be almost the same in almost every game as long as you have two sticks of RAM. Maybe turn crowd density to medium instead of high in Cyberpunk. You may see a slight difference in Shadow of the Tomb Raider in the Hub-Areas with lots of NPCs.
A little bit off topic: when you tested diablo with ryzen 5 5600,did you use vulkan or opengl?
I never tested diabolo, but I'd go Vulkan over any other option in every game 😉
@@reto Ok. XD, sorry,i meant Doom. Don't know why I wrote diablo.
Always Vulkan!
Did you have data on how SAM affected frametimes and/or 1% lows? Meaning while perhaps the overall average framerate isn't improved much, is frame consistency any better?
I didn't collect that as it would require an insane number of runs to make a sound statistical statement about it. In most games, SAM improves performance a little bit, but in others, it completely tanks it (HZD, ACO) on the RX 6500 XT (probably also on the RX 6400). Of course, the better average is likely accompanied by better percentile lows.
Hey Reto
I'm curious now, days gone is game I find to be a pretty great PC port, have you ever tried it with the 5600g?
Hi Davi, I have seen it, but I don't have it yet. I hope I can grow the channel fairly quickly so with Patron support and Ad-$ I will be able to buy new games on release and catch up with some releases I don't have yet.
hey mate do you think fortnite will still get good fps with this video card with the new unreal engine5 ?
Yes, just run it in performance mode
What a good video thanks man That's really helpful I have a question gtx 1650 and rx 6500 xt are same price 200$ can you do a comparison video between those or what it is better for me I have i3 8100 with 1280x1024 res monitor I am going to play red dead and god of war and elden ring which card has best overall performance and resell value and again thanks for that video
To be honest, I think your CPU may have trouble keeping up in those games with either of those GPUs ;) The Radeon card is faster, the Nvidia card has more features. Hard to say which will retain better resell value.
Very nice. Can you test ultra setting with Ray Tracing?
There's a ray-tracing video on the channel ;)
@@reto You mean the video: "Ray-Tracing: RX 6500 XT vs GTX 1080 Ti"?
What about soft test, blender foer example, ore photo shop, also vere intresting the results of 5600g + vega7 in Photoshop
I'm going to look into some productivity stuff in the future, but not any of the Adobe software. I may do some machine learning, code compile, code execution, blender, and video rendering.
Will it work great with h410m v3 gigabyte board with i5 10400f?
10400 only supports PCIe 3.0, it will work very similarly to Ryzen 5600G. i5 11400 (on 500 series MB), i3 12100 or Ryzen 5600(X) are better pairings because they support PCIe 4.0.
@@reto dang it's cheaper here so I'm thinking of upgrade because I'm using gtx 550ti atm.lol
If you have other options, evaluate those
I am looking through comparisons between gaming desktop PCs to see which is better and i am on a budget mostly saving up rest of my money
In your perspective which is better:
SEVEN RYZEN 7 5700G with 16GB DDR4 RAM with 256GB SSD 1TB HDD AMD or AIR LITE WHITE RYZEN 3 4300G QUAD CORE RADEON RX 6500 XT?
I'd try to get one of the new intel i3 CPUs and an RX 6600
@@reto Just bought the CPU and RX 6600.
@@reto Bought 5 Thermal Pastes.
@@reto Will be buying Ryzen 9 however which GPU goes well with it?
im getting an RX 6500 XT + i3 10100F + motherboard for $150, huge deal!
also, since you mentioned overclocking the card gave better results in pcie 3.0, i might try to overclock it
i have a 700W psu and the 6500 XT is a 3 fan model
:) There's a video on the channel about RX 6500 XT OC results.
Can u please teach me how to setting my msi radeon rx 6500 xt..PLEASE i cant use it properly..
Yes, I made a playlist just for that: ua-cam.com/play/PLEqMr3dlBmMZ0ME3SDmyptTumi38ohZI3.html
@@reto thank u bro
Thnx dude, nice video. Plz do a test with Total War Warhammer (1, 2 or 3) plz and War Thunder If u can.
I don't have those. Warhammer 1&2 will be easy. Warhammer 3 I can't say, but I would assume it's fine. It's over the recommended spec in War Thunder
i have i3 10100, PCIE 3 mobo & 16gb ram .. is Rx 6500 XT still better than Gtx 1650 with PCIE 3 ?? only fr gaming 💙
Yes, performance is almost always better. 1650 (4G6) is on the benchmark charts in the video
How'd you recorded it on rx 6500 xt??
external capture device 😉
Wondering if you might test splitgate it’s a free game on steam
With 6500XT? Probably not, it should be easy to run.
Hello sir , i have a pcie 4.0 Rx 6500 Xt, Ryzen 5 3400G, asus a320m-k, 8x2 2666 RAM
In valorant GPU usage won't use more than 40% (150-200 fps)
i am having big drops in Fortnite , Directx 11 + 12 (30 - 120 fps)
CS Go comp settings also dropping
When using Ryzen 3400G you are on PCIe 3 not PCIe 4. If GPU usage is low in Valorant, I assume your CPU can't keep up. Try Fortnite in Peformance mode.
@@reto I had The same problem. I play RedDeadRedemption2, 1080 high/medium at 60fps. It uses The 100% and 2800mHz
But when i want play GTA V it only uses 30-40% GPU and low fps Sometimes 50-70fps
Never uses The 100% CPU.
The same happen with other Games.
(Sorry for My basic and primitive English lol)
My PC:
Rx 6500 Xt
Ryzen 5 3400G
ASUS A520m A II
8x2 3200
SsD 480gb
The fail of this card still is that most of its target audience will be on PCIe 3.0 -- and will be for quite some time. PCie4.0 is quite new, considering that Intel as the big dog started supporting it in 2021ish. Pairing 4GB with 4 PCIe lanes in 2022 is a major mistake. I buy the reasoning why they went with but 4GB. But this combination I'm not buying. They clearly see this as a market where most customers care about nothing else but a lower price. (As an ado, despite this card being stripped off literally everything, it still consumes over 100W of power too).
I've been on the lookout to replace my 1050ti (which had 4GB of RAM six years ago already, plus full bandwith with 16 lanes). But this is definitely not going to be it. Whilst as a (tactical) CRPG fan I didn't play overly many graphic blockbusters on it. But those I did, they all were pretty fine on medium to high, from Dishonored 2 to Kingdom Come Deliverance to most recent even still Elden Ring at 40-45fps medium. I highly doubt that the 6500XT is even half the same value. Not on PCIe 3.0 anyway and neither on 4.0. You buy one today and you need to replace it tomorrow.
Nvidia of course are no better. See more recent their RTX 3060 8GB, which performance-wise is more like a (theoretical) 3050ti. It will be interesting to see how both AMD and Nvidia will operate on the lower end market with their current generations...
You have to keep in mind that this was developed as a mobile GPU. It doesn't have the encoder because that's on 6000 series mobile CPUs, and it's x4 lanes because that will use less power; that is not something you can just change. They already had the 6600, and yields are probably too good for them to cut that down and make it the 6500.
It's not that bad on PCIe 3 (on average, still 25% faster than the GDDR6 GTX 1650), but in some games, it really suffers on PCIe 3 (for example, Cyberpunk, Guardians of the Galaxy).
If you want to replace your GTX 1050 Ti for a good value, you can check out the GTX 1660 Super, RX 5700 XT, and RX 6600m on Aliexpress.
@@reto The RX 6600 would be definitely my card to go to right now. It's multiple times as fast as the RX 6500 over here, at ~150% the price. And that's just the raw rendering power -- the 8GB ensure it will last much longer. It's so much better value, I'd even go for a used GTX 1060 6GB over a RX 6500XT any time.
There are a few custom 8GB RX 6500XT appearing in shops, btw. But they cost as much as an RX6600 basically.
Both low end and high end are often the worst in terms of bank for your buck. On the high end, price for costumers doesn't matter, so Nvidia and AMD take this into account. On the low end meanwhile, price is (almost) the only thing that matters, so...
how much should i pay for a new 6500xt ?
that depends on what else you have available
@@reto the cheapest rx 6600 in my country it's 338 dollars and the 6500xt it's 225 dollars, the rtx 3050 it's overpriced so i doesn't even matter, and the rx 6400 it's like 184 dollars but it's too weak.
ok, that's not too bad then :) If your CPU supports PCIe 4, you get your money's worth on the 6500 XT; if it's PCIe 3, I might try to save up for the 6600. Don't go for the 6400.
@@reto i was thinking of upgrading my pc for warzone, i3 12100f, b660m ds3h ddr4, rx 6500 xt, 2x8gb ram 3200mhz cl16, corsair cx450m and a kingston nv1 for windows and apps/programs.
@@sepimomane5158 Yes, that's a great combo (and part selection) I think i3 12100(f) and i5 11400(f) are ideal CPUs for the RX 6500 XT.
Should I buy this gpu if I have a i5 3340s cpu?
You will be limited by your CPU.
@@reto then with the cpu I mentioned, will It perform equal to the gtx 1050ti?
it runs baulder's gate at 84 fps on ultra
sweet :) thanks for letting us know.
Me barely getting a constant 80fps on fortnite: what am i doing wrong😭😭
CPU? Try performance mode.
On perf mode i get stable but slightly worse fps and if i try any dx11 or 12 my game freezes alot
@@Rat_776what is your CPU and RAM config?
Ram cpu config?
I sound rlly dumb rn😂😂
Only worth for $99
if seen them for less on the used market :)
@@reto I am looking through comparisons between gaming desktop PCs to see which is better and i am on a budget mostly saving up rest of my money
In your perspective which is better:
SEVEN RYZEN 7 5700G with 16GB DDR4 RAM with 256GB SSD 1TB HDD AMD or AIR LITE WHITE RYZEN 3 4300G QUAD CORE RADEON RX 6500 XT?
yooooo
yoo :)
Thank you very much for the effort sir, I bought it bc of this vid
:) Awesome, hope you enjoy! I've had a lot of fun with the card and I'd use it in my own workstation if it wasn't for the lack of encoder which I need to make videos.
@@reto But may I ask if the Gpu (rx 6500 xt) memory clock/gpu mem. is max to (2236mhz) in any of games sir. without recording sir.
I'm not sure, you can see max OC (VBIOS limits) in my other RX 6500 XT video.