Graphics cards/AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB
AMD · Radeon RX 6000 · Desktop
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB is AMD’s desktop graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, 1,024 shading units and a boost clock of 2815 MHz.
Drawn from this part’s own specifications. No openly-licensed photograph of the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB exists, so this is an illustration rather than a photograph.
Overview
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB is AMD’s desktop graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, 1,024 shading units and a boost clock of 2815 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.
Specifications
- Architecture
- Not verified
- Shading units
- 1,024
- Base clock
- Not verified
- Boost clock
- 2815 MHz
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 64-bit
- Game clock
- 2650 MHz
- Compute units
- 16
- TDP
- 113 W
- Process
- Not verified
- Launched
- 2022-01-19
Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.
AMD's typical clock while gaming. A different quantity from a base clock.
Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.
Sources
Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.
| Figure | As printed | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shading units1,024 | Stream Processorsunder AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Boost clock2815 MHz | Boost Frequencyunder AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Memory8 GB | Max Memory Sizeunder AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Memory typeGDDR6 | Memory Typeunder AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Memory bus64-bit | Memory Interfaceunder AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Game clock2650 MHz | Game Frequencyunder AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Compute units16 | Compute Unitsunder AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page | |
| TDP113 W | Typical Board Power (Desktop)under AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page | |
| Launched2022-01-19 | Launch Dateunder AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | amd.comSpecification page |
Measured on SystemCheck: not enough runs yet. Run the test to add yours.
Compare
The 6 nearest graphics cards in the same segment, each with a published side-by-side.
- AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8GB
- AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600
- AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
- AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
- AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
- AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
What these numbers mean
Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.
Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.
We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.