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

For our manual overclocking tests, we used AMD's driver tuning tools. Our best results are as below.

Interestingly, AMD has capped both the GPU and memory frequency sliders, to 2975MHz and 2400MHz respectively. I was able to put both sliders at their maximum values without instability.

That saw average clock speed increase to 2957MHz.

Performance didn't really increase by much at all as a result of this overclock, with the one exception being in Hitman 3.

Power draw did bump up by around 14 Watts or so, however.

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