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 really illustrate the difference made by running the RX 6500 XT on a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface, instead of PCIe 4.0 x4, below we can see a chart showing the RX 6500 XT's PCIe 3.0 performance, relative to its PCIe 4.0 performance.

The results are not pleasant viewing. Apart from Hitman 3, where we saw basically no difference between the two PCIe modes, the RX 6500 XT shows clear performance deficits when ran at PCIe 3.0. Forza Horizon 5 is the worst offender, showing a 36% deficit in PCIe 3.0 versus PCIe 4.0, but ten of the twelve games we tested also show double-digit performance losses.

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