Especially if theyre happy to stick to playing at 1080p.
Even the stock clock speeds are, in fairness, incredibly high by any GPU standards.
That doesnt change how trying to get by with 4GB no more than the Radeon RX 550 from 2017!

is playing with fire, as far as modern hardware demands are concerned.
1440p was doable here too, with 57fps in Dubai and 49fps in Dartmoor again on Ultra tweaks.
Engaging FSR, AMDs upscaling tech, also pushed HZDs 1440p/Ultimate average from 40fps up to 50fps.

There are, however, two problems with these results.
One more frame and thatd be double the RX 6500 XTs effort.
At 1440p, this plummeted to 34fps.

Switching to High offered smaller gains than Odyssey too, ultimately averaging a so-so 43fps.
Make that 22fps for Ultra on 1440p, as well.
It took dropping to Medium quality, plus Medium ray tracing, to simply climb back up to 37fps.

This all essentially leaves the RX 6500 XTs lower price as its main appealing quality.
Apply the same pressure to a naturally slower PCIe 3.0 interface, and performance suffers even more.


