Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC 4GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC 4GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is an entry-level gaming graphics card that AMD tried to make as unappealing to crypto miners as possible. However, this meant skipping some of the details that make good graphics cards good! AMD’s Radeon RX 6500 XT is a humble graphics card built to bring 1080p gaming to the masses at a time when the masses haven’t had an affordable GPU option for years. Sapphire’s popular “Pulse” brand relentlessly focuses on delivering solid gaming experiences without cost-adding frills you may not want. The Radeon RX 6500 XT packs a scant 4GB of GDDR6 memory over a minute 64-bit bus, unheard of in modern gaming GPUs, though those memory chips are clocked at a blazing-fast 18Gbps and come augmented by AMD’s radical Infinity Cache technology. The card also, sadly, supports only four PCIe lanes rather than the usual 16, which can lead to slightly lower performance in older systems that still run PCIe 3.0, rather than the faster PCIe 4.0 technology found in the latest PCs. This Sapphire PULSE RX 6500 XT Gaming OC 4GB has slightly different specs from those above, configured with a 130W total board power rather than the 107W base / 120W OC from AMD’s official specs. And on the subject of official specs, that memory bandwidth number is quite a bit different once Infinity Cache is included, rising to an effective bandwidth of up to 231.6 GB/s.