As the anomaly in the graphics card market continues, the bizarre thing is happening, where the mainstream model, which was discontinued several generations ago, is re-released. There is no regret in terms of performance, but since the manufacturing process or architecture is outdated, it is inevitable to be concerned about power consumption and heat generation compared to relatively newer products.
It is a luxurious situation to even care about this and that, so once a useful card is released and sold, it is a situation that has to be dealt with.
The concerns faced before purchasing a graphics card are especially serious for price-sensitive mainstream gamers, but AMD has released the Radeon RX 6500 XT for full HD mainstream gamers in the traditional sense.
The Radeon RX 6600 series is also a product for Full HD gamers, but it is a model for gamers who want a high refresh rate experience of 60 frames or more in the highest graphics option. It’s only the RX 6500 XT.
Radeon RX 6500 XT, like the RX 6000 series, is released only with custom models from each manufacturer without reference design products. Let’s take a look at
Radeon RX 6500 XT: TDP 107W Recommended PSU 400W, $199 Mainstream Model
Although the Radeon RX 6400 has been announced, as it is an OEM-only model, the lowest level of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series that users can upgrade is the Radeon RX 6500 XT. It is a product that pursues cost-effectiveness. It has a TDP of 107W, an auxiliary power connector with one PCIe 6 pin, and a recommended PSU of 400W, so it can be used in most systems without PSU upgrade.
The memory bus of Radeon RX 6500 XT is 64-bit, which was not seen in the mainstream product line, and is a structure adopted only in existing entry-level products. It is believed that this lowering of the memory bus is due to the Infinity Cache applied to the RDNA2 architecture, but we will check the actual performance later.
One disappointment is that AV1 decoding and H.264/H.265 encoding are not supported among video support. It is sufficient to use a PC for video ‘watching’ to support decoding, but the use of GPU acceleration is limited for game video recording or editing for uploading to YouTube or Twitch. Compared to Nvidia, mainstream graphics cards such as the GeForce GTX 750 Ti also support media encoding.
On the other hand, the MSRP price of the Radeon RX 6500 XT is $199, which is the same as the previous-generation models, the Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB and Radeon RX 580 4GB, in terms of price. .
As mentioned earlier, the Radeon RX 6500 XT only appears as a custom model without the AMD reference design model, so in this article, we will take a look at the performance of the Radeon RX 6500 XT with the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC model.
Unfortunately, before the Radeon RX 6500 xT was released, the latest version of GPU-Z, 2.43.0, could not accurately detect the clock of the product. Please refer to the next performance check.
On the other hand, the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC JC Hyun graphics card uses triple cooling fans for screen cooling, and Alternate Spinning, which improves the cooling performance loss and noise caused by turbulence at the interface between the fans by designing the rotation direction of the central fan in the opposite direction, and at a specific temperature. 3D Active Fan technology that turns on/off the fan rotation is applied.
Based on the 3DMark Time Spy Stress Test, it was investigated that the fan operates from 45°C when the GPU temperature rises, and stops rotating at 50°C when the GPU temperature decreases.
The reference output port configuration of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is one each for DP 1.4a and HDMI 2.1, and the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC JC Hyun graphics card also provides an output port that complies with this. As it is 2 slots thick, vents are configured to help dissipate internal heat except for the output port.
If you disassemble the cooler, you can see the power supply unit centered on ON Semiconductor’s NCP81022 PWM controller that supports 4+1 phase dual output. have.
The backplate can be expected to act as an additional heat sink in addition to the product protection role by adding a thermal pad to the GPU mounting part. The role of absorption appears to be greater.
The heat sink, which is the core of the cooling solution, is an integrated GPU/VRAM/power unit, and among them, two heat pipes (one S-type and one U-type) directly contact and transfer heat to the other parts of the heat sink.
Before confirming the performance of the Radeon RX 6500 XT, we checked the cooling performance of the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC to be used in the test. Based on the 3DMark Time Spy Stress Test, the GPU temperature was up to 60℃ and the frame stability was 99.7%, confirming the excellent performance of the cooling solution.
