AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Linux Performance

I benchmarked the Radeon RX 6500 XT alongside an assortment of other NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon low to mid-range graphics cards. All of the GPUs were freshly re-tested with the AMD cards using Linux 5.16 and Mesa 22.0-devel (Oibaf PPA) for the freshest driver stack while on the NVIDIA side was their NVIDIA 510.39.01 latest public driver.

The graphics cards used for this fresh round of Linux graphics benchmarking included:

- RX 590 8GB
- RX Vega 56
- RX 5500 XT 4GB
- RX 5700 XT
- RX 6500 XT
- RX 6600
- RX 6600 XT
- RX 6700 XT
- RX 6800
- GTX 1060
- GTX 1650
- GTX 1650 SUPER
- GTX 1660 SUPER
- RTX 2060
- RTX 2060 SUPER
- RTX 2070
- RTX 2070 SUPER
- RTX 3060
- RTX 3060 Ti
- RTX 3070
- RTX 3070 Ti

Unfortunately no GeForce RTX 3050 comparison point yet with not having any RTX 3050 graphics card currently for testing.

A wide variety of Linux native games as well as Windows games using Valve's Steam Play (Proton + DXVK) were benchmarked on these graphics cards at 1080p.

There are not any GPU power consumption metrics for the RX 6500 XT unfortunately as at least under Linux there is no GPU power metric exposed on the RX 6500 XT unlike the higher-end graphics cards - either due to a driver or hardware limitation. Overall though from a software perspective if using an up-to-date Linux kernel and Mesa the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card support should be in order and has been working out fine both with OpenGL and Vulkan (RADV). There is also RX 6500 XT support with AMDVLK.