The Radeon RX 6500XT is last gen's budget offering from the red team for gamers looking to get high performance without paying a premium price. It uses Navi 24 graphics built on AMD's Navi 2 architecture using TSMC's 6nm process. In this article, let's talk about the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT price in Nepal, features, specs, and availability.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Overview:

Internal specifications

It uses the Navi 24 GPU featuring 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, 32 ROPs, and 16 raytracing acceleration cores.You can either get the 4GB or the 8GB variant of the card.It is connected via a 64-bit memory interface, operating at a frequency of 2248 MHz (18 Gbps effective). Additionally, the GPU itself runs at a base frequency of 2310 MHz, with a boost clock reaching up to 2815 MHz.

Features

The RX 6500 XT is a budget graphics card with DirectX 12 support for gaming technologies like hardware-raytracing and variable-rate shading.Technically, AMD’s RX 6500 XT has HDMI 2.1 support for pushing 4k at up to 120 fps and 8k at up to 60. However, it lacks the encoding codecs essential (HEVC and H.265) for supporting these specific resolutions and refresh rates.

Power consumption and Connectivity

In terms of power consumption, the RX 6500 XT draws power from a single 6-pin power connector, with a maximum power draw of 107 W. Also, it follows a dual-slot design and offers display outputs including 1x HDMI 2.1 and 1x DisplayPort 1.4a. The card utilizes a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 interface for system connectivity.

Competition

The RX 6500 XT can go up to 1080p gameplay placing it in competition with Nvidia’s RTX 3050.  Both cards have 8GB of GDDR6 RAM (— the 6500 XT has a 4GB variant as well).The company however claims that this card is up to 33% faster than the NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1650 on average and also outperforms RX 570.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Specifications:

• GPU: Navi 24
• Compute Units: 16
• Ray Accelerators: 16
• Game Frequency: 2610 MHz
• Boost Frequency: Up to 2815 MHz
• Peak Single Precision Performance: 5.77 TFLOPS
• Peak Half Precision Performance: 11.53 TFLOPS
• Infinity Cache: 16MB
• Video Memory: 4GB GDDR6
• Memory Interface: 64-bit (18Gb/s)
• Memory Bandwidth: up to 144GB/s
• (Power) TBP: 107W
• Power Connector: 1×6-pin
• Supported Rendering Format: HDMI 4K Support, 4K H264 Decode, H265/HEVC Decode

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Price in Nepal

In summary, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is suitable for budget PC builds and 1080p gaming. The price of aftermarket AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics cards in Nepal starts at Rs. 30,000. You can buy AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics cards in Nepal from brands like Asus, HP, or Lenovo from Hukut Store.