Specifications
GPU：RX 6500 XT
Number of CUDA units: 1024
Frequency: 2705MHz~2825MHz (OC mode)
2685MHz~2825MHz (Game Mode)
Memory type: GDDR6
Memory width: 64-bit
Memory capacity: 4GB
Size: 250mm×147mm×54mm
Output interface: 1× HDMI 2.1, 1×DisplayPort 1.4a
After 2019, AMD has not launched a graphics card at a price of 1,000 yuan. Until the JUST held CES, AMD officially released the RX 6500 XT graphics card, marking that the RX 6000 series has finally covered the thousand-dollar market, and mainstream players finally have a new dessert-level choice. Asus announced the launch of non-public graphics cards belonging to the two series of TIF GAMING and DUAL at the first time. In this first test we received asus TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING, let's take a look at the performance of this graphics card.
Continuing military materials, the appearance and quality are excellent
With a body size of 250mm×147mm×54mm, ASUS TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is small and compact, ideal for building small steel cannon game consoles. The graphics card adopts the appearance design of this generation of TIF GAMING family, and still focuses on the tough military style style, which is quite eye-catching. On the side of the graphics card, strip RGB lights and TIF LOGO RGB lights are also set up, which enhances the cool index of the overall appearance of the graphics card and is full of personality. Of course, this TIF LOGO RGB lamp is also a support for ASUS AURA Sync divine light synchronization, which can be linked with other hardware that supports this technology, thus creating a cool "light pollution" effect with uniform lighting effects. In addition, ASUS also plans to add a setting that maps the GPU and CPU temperature conditions to the RGB lamp in the future version of the Armory Crate software, so that users can understand the operation of the hardware in a more intuitive way.
In terms of heat sinks, the ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is equipped with four heat pipes, which can quickly transfer the heat generated by the GPU and dissipate it through a larger area of 2.7-slot heat dissipation fins. The radiator shell made of aluminum alloy with a full-size metal backplane with a cooling window at the bottom can protect the PCB from physical damage while also providing better auxiliary heat dissipation.
In the fan part, the graphics card is still equipped with 2 axial fans as standard, which uses a smaller fan housing to accommodate longer fan blades, and increases the downward air pressure with a ring sealing ring to obtain better heat dissipation. Of course, with such a powerful configuration, the fan only begins to rotate when the GPU reaches the specified temperature, which can bring players a quieter experience.
When the heat sink is removed, you can see that the PCB created by the fully automated production process is very neat, eliminating the errors that may occur in manual welding and ensuring a high degree of consistency and stability of the graphics card. Although it is a mid-range dessert product, ASUS TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING still has a 7-group power supply design, with stable and durable military materials, to ensure that the graphics card can continue to run stably at high frequencies of 2825MHz.
A toggle switch is also provided on the side of the graphics card for easy players to switch between mute and performance in P MODE and Q MODE.
Considering that the maximum power of the RX 6500 XT is only 120W, the ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is equipped with only one 6pin power supply interface to meet the power supply needs. At the same time, an indicator light is also provided on the power supply interface to show whether the power cable is correctly connected to the power supply interface of the graphics card.
In terms of I/O interface, ASUS TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING provides a combination of HDMI 2.1 + DisplayPort 1.4a, which is enough to meet the needs of mainstream applications.
1080P games can be eaten with appropriate image quality settings
Test platform
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X
Memory: Viagran XPG DDR4 3600 8GB×2
Graphics: ASUS TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING
Non-public GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5
Motherboard: ROG STRX B550-XE GAMING WIFI
Hard Disk: WD_BLACK SN850 2TB
Power supply: Hangjia WD650P Platinum Edition
Operating system: Windows 11 Pro
In order to be close to the mainstream players is the application scenario, we chose to use the Ryzen 5600X to create a set of popular mid-range game configurations, and then through the latest AAA masterpieces and popular online games to examine the actual performance of ASUS TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING. Of course, in order to let everyone more intuitively understand how the performance of the graphics card is, we have also introduced a non-public version of gtX 1650 for comparison.
Benchmark performance tests
After all, the GTX 1650 is a graphics card released in April 2019, which is relatively old, even if it has greater PCI EXPRESS bandwidth, but the performance gap in front of the updated ASUS TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is very obvious. In the two scenarios of 3DMark FireStrike and FireStrike Extreme, the performance of the ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is more than 50%. In terms of benchmark results, we can conclude that the ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is much stronger than the GTX 1650.
Game performance testing
Whether it is a 3A masterpiece or a popular online game, ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING's test score is unsurprisingly ahead of the GTX 1650, which has a clear advantage in terms of the smoothness of the game.
Perhaps the most concerned is whether the 4GB display of asus TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING will burst the video memory when running the 3A masterpiece. As far as our tests are concerned, this problem is not prominent. Because of the 1080P resolution and appropriate picture quality settings, except for the average frame rate of the two games of "God of War 4" and "Cyberpunk 2077" is less than 60fps, the rest of the "Gods Fall", "Far Cry 6", "Watch Dogs: Legion", "Horizon 5", "Total War Legends: Troy", "Tomb Raider: Shadow" and "Galaxy Ruptured (GPU)" and other 3A masterpieces have achieved more than 60fps, for such a thousand-dollar graphics card, This is a very good performance performance of the game. As for the face of popular online games such as "Forever Doomed" and "CS:GO", ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is even more stress-free.
The AAA platform has a performance bonus that unlocks hidden performance
When the Ryzen™ 5000 platform was launched, AMD was equipped with SmartAccess Memory, which allows the CPU to access all the video memory of the Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card directly through the PCIe 4.0 channel, resulting in a performance boost.
After we turned on SmartAccess Memory in the graphics driver panel, the performance of the ASUS TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING was further improved in many of the games we tested.
Turn on FSR and get the ultimate release of performance
Of course, let's not forget that asus TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING also supports AMD's FSR technology. Even if we just set FSR as the "ultra high quality" block where image quality is the highest priority, the game's frame rate has been significantly improved. In particular, in the two games "Far Cry 6" (medium quality) and "God of War 4" (high quality), the improvement in smoothness is very obvious. And in this gear, I can hardly tell the difference in image quality with the naked eye, and there is no impact on the visual experience of the game screen.
New process support, overclocking, heat dissipation performance is excellent
Compared to other RX 6000 series graphics cards, one of the obvious differences between the ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is the 6nm process. With the blessing of advanced technology, asus TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING not only has the highest frequency of 2825MHz, but also has better performance in temperature and power control.
We tested the ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING with FurMark indoors at room temperature of 24 degrees Celsius, and at default settings, the maximum temperature of the ASUS TIF-R6500XT-O4G-GAMING GPU was only 53°C, which is a pretty good performance. In addition, even if the graphics card fan is running at high speed, it does not feel that the noise is harsh.
It seems that the frequency setting of the ASUS TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is still left to work, and then we overclocked it. The maximum frequency when running 3DMark was increased from 2886MHz to 2960MHz, and the Time Spy score was increased from 5098 to 5179.
Summary: The best choice for mid-range 1080P desserts
This TIF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING is from Asus, under the blessing of "full ultra-cold", the performance is enough to cope with the needs of 1080P games, coupled with the heatsink of the dual axial fan, even if the graphics card is fully loaded, the core temperature can be controlled within 60 ° C, which is quite a calm performance. Combined with workmanship, performance, and heat dissipation, it can be said that asus TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING has no shortcomings.
What's more, in order to limit the mining of the RX 6500 XT, AMD painstakingly set its video memory capacity to 4GB (Ethereum's DAG file has exceeded 4GB, which means that the graphics card with 4GB of video memory cannot be used to calculate Ethereum), which means that without miners' scramble, players can have more opportunities to buy graphics cards. So we are optimistic that ASUS TUF-RX6500XT-O4G-GAMING will become a good choice for 1080P mainstream players.