Will PCIe 3.0 Kill It? | RX 6500 XT vs. 2022

Benchmarking the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card against 12 popular and recent games on an average gaming PC.
It’s been a while since a GPU has received the kind of critical evisceration that the RX 6500 XT has seen. On its release in January 2022, it lacked some crucial features that comparable graphics cards have, but was pretty much the only sub £200 port in the Scalper storm.
Now, in May, I’ve finally gotten hold of one to see for myself whether the criticisms are valid or whether the RX 6500 XT has an uphill struggle ahead of it. What won’t count in its favour is my test PC’s lack of PCI-Express 4 compatibility….

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00:00 AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4GB vs. 2022
00:40 Background: History of the RX 6500 XT 4GB
01:35 Test System: Ryzen 5 5600G, 16GB DDR4-3600
02:12 Gaming Benchmarks
02:15 Benchmarks: God of War 1920x1080 Original
03:00 Benchmarks: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade 1920x1080 High
04:04 Benchmarks: Guardians of the Galaxy 1920x1080 Medium, High
04:55 Benchmarks: Forza Horizon 5 1920x1080 High, Ultra/High Tex
05:45 Benchmarks: Halo Infinite 1920x1080 Low, Medium
06:50 Benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077 1920x1080 Medium
07:40 Benchmarks: Rainbow Six Extraction 1920x1080 High
08:25 Benchmarks: Splitgate 1920x1080 Epic
09:05 Benchmarks: Call of Duty Vanguard 1920x1080 Medium
09:47 Benchmarks: Fortnite 1920x1080 Competitive, High/Epic
10:43 Benchmarks: Battlefield 2042 1920x1080 Medium
11:11 Benchmarks: Call of Duty Warzone 1920x1080 Normal/High
11:41 Benchmarks: Time Spy
11:47 Benchmarks Compared
11:54 Surprise! It was PCI-E 3.0 all along...
14:00 Conclusion: Is the RX 6500 XT 4GB any good?

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