Test Rig
For our tests, we used a test rig which includes the ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 Motherboard, along with an Intel Core i9-12900FK, with 32GB of Adata XPG Lancer RGB DDR5-6000 in quad channel mode, and Adata Legend 840 PCIE Gen4 1TB SSD.
All tests were conducted at turbo clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | Intel Core i9-1200KF (Alder Lake) |
| Cooling | Enermax AquaFusion RGB 120 AIO |
| Motherboard | ASRock Z690 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 Motherboard |
| Ram | 32GB of Adata Lancer DDR5-6000 |
| XMP profiles | Yes – XMP 3.0 |
| SSD/HDD | Adata Lancer 840 1TB (PCIE Gen4x4) |
| PSU | Thermaltake ToughPower 850W |
| VGA card | ASRock Radeon RX 6500XT Phantom Gaming D 4GB OC |
| Nvidia Drivers | Latest Radeon Adrenalin Software |
| OS | Windows 10 |
GPU-Z Info
GPU-Z reports the Navi 24 chip using 6nm technology. PCIE 4.0 at x4 with 4GB of GDDR6 ram (Samsung) on a 64-bit memory bus. Base clock is at 2,365 MHz, while Game clock runs at 2,650 MHz and Boost clock at 2,820 MHz.
AIDA64 GPU Info
As you can seen from screenshot below … the RX 6500 XT is based on AMD’s Navi 24 (RDNA 2) architecture and supports PCIE 4.0. It uses 4GB of GDDR6 ram on a 64-bit memory bus. Oddly, AIDA64 reports the Navi 24 chip using 7nm instead of 6nm. GPU-Z correctly reports it as 6nm.
PassMark – Performance Test 9.0 (3D Test)
Test the speed of your 3D video card by selecting from options such as fogging, lighting, alpha blending, wire frame, texturing, resolution, color depth, object rotation and object displacement. Separate tests for DirectX 9,10,11 & 12. With support for 4K resolution.
Load Temperatures
During our full load test, the card reached a high of 64 degrees Celsius, with the GPU Hotspot at 84 degrees Celsius. The hotspot temperature is a little high … but the large heatsink with heatpipe and twin fans does a decent job of cooling the graphics card.
