AMD RX 6500 XT Review ft. Gigabyte Eagle

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte RX 6500 XT Eagle3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. Assassin's Creed Valhalla6. Cyberpunk 20777. Death Stranding8. Far Cry 69. Forza Horizon 510. Hitman 311. Horizon Zero Dawn12. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy13. Red Dead Redemption 214. Resident Evil Village15. Total War Saga: Troy16. Watch Dogs: Legion17. PCIe 4.0 vs PCIe 3.0 Investigation18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Ray Tracing20. Cost Per Frame Analysis21. Clock Speed22. GPU Temperatures23. Acoustics24. Power Draw: 1080p25. Power Draw: 1440p26. Performance per Watt: 1080p27. Performance per Watt: 1440p28. Total System Power Draw29. Overclocking30. Closing Thoughts31. View All Pages

To assess the RX 6500 XT's ray tracing, we tested it in Cyberpunk 2077, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition and Resident Evil Village. In each case, ray tracing was set to its lowest in-game setting:

• Cyberpunk 2077: Ray Traced Lighting at Medium. Ray traced reflections and ray traced shadows turned off.
• Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition:  Ray Tracing set to Normal.
• Resident Evil Village: Ray traced reflections and shadows set to Low.

As we can see, even with such low ray tracing settings, we could not get a playable frame rate from the RX 6500 XT with RT enabled. We know AMD's overall ray tracing support isn't as strong as Nvidia's, but also ray tracing is very VRAM intensive too. I suspect that such low performance is a combination of the two, with 4GB VRAM really struggling here.

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