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

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

The Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Gaming OC 4GB GDDR6 Graphics Card runs on the powerful Dual-X Cooling Technology coupled with Intelligent Fan Control to keep temperatures low and fan noise low. The refined PCB design delivers stable, reliable, and steady performance, which efficiently lowers PCB temperature and component signal noise. It comes with a 4GB GDDR6 Memory Size. It features a Boost Clock of up to 1024 MHz and a Game Clock of up to 2825 MHz. Sapphire Pulse RX 6500XT Gaming OC features the breakthrough AMD RDNA 2 architecture. It has been engineered to deliver an incredible 1080p gaming experience. The Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500XT Graphics Card has 1x HDMI and 1x DisplayPort. It supports up to 7680×4320 resolution and a maximum of 2 displays can be used. This graphics card has some special features with it. Premium Digital Power Design such as Fuse Protection, Dual-X Cooling Technology, Intelligent Fan Control, Precision Fan Control, Metal Backplate, Two-Ball Bearing Fans, TriXX Supported, and TriXX Boost. It is a very good choice for gamers.

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

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! For example, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is limited to 4 PCIe lanes, and it’s equipped with just 4GB of RAM. On the other hand, that RAM is fast, and the card’s price is affordable compared to what the GPU market looks like right now. So is it worth buying one? In today’s review, we’re taking a look at the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT. Read on to see what it can do:

RX 6500XT Gaming OC Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card can represent a good choice for you with a couple of conditions. You’ll have to either not be into gaming, or be OK with playing games in 1080p on medium to high graphics settings at most. And you’ll also need to already have a motherboard that supports PCI Express 4.0 at least. Otherwise, this video card’s performance will be severely limited. If you meet these basic requirements and don’t want to spend a lot on your next graphics card, then yes, you could try the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT.

The Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is not a very large graphics card, and its package is accordingly small. The box showcases the brand and name of the GPU, as well as some of its main features, technical specs, and minimum system requirements. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of the video card anywhere.

Inside the package, you’ll find the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card, accompanied by its user manual and warranty documents.<em>The unboxing experience you get from the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card is straightforward. You only get the bare essentials, as expected from a budget device.</em>

RX 6500XT Gaming OC graphics card is protected by a metallic plate on its back, with a nice design. It features the <em>Sapphire Pulse</em> brand and logo, as well as AMD’s <em>Radeon</em> printed in red, thick font characters. Besides aesthetics, the backplate also has a more important goal: to help dissipate heat.

Compared to AMD’s reference Radeon RX 6500 XT, Sapphire’s graphics card comes with a better cooling system. Instead of just one cooler, the <em>Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT</em> has two. Thus, it should be able to achieve lower temperatures than the stock RX 6500 XT. Furthermore, it should be noticeably quieter, as the two fans can provide equivalent airflow while spinning at lower speeds.

RX 6500XT Gaming OC technical specs of the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT are the same as those of the reference AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT. It’s built using AMD’s RDNA 2 GPU architecture, on TSMC’s 6-nanometer manufacturing process. The card’s default game clock measures an impressive 2.6GHz, while the boost clock can reach 2.8GHz. Furthermore, compared to the previous generation of AMD GPUs, the RX 6500 XT also comes with ray accelerators, so hardware ray-tracing is possible. Unfortunately, you only get 16 such accelerators, which is nowhere near the amount required for even average ray-tracing performance. You’ll probably get away with enabling a few less-demanding ray-tracing options in your favorite games, but that’s all.

On the other hand, the RX 6500 XT graphics card can use AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution, a feature that can improve performance significantly in supported games. It works by rendering frames at lower than set resolution in games and upscaling them in real-time. While somewhat similar to Nvidia’s DLSS (Deep Learning SuperSampling) technology, it’s easier to implement by developers, so we should see the number of games that can use it increase exponentially during the next couple of months. For now, there aren’t so many games that can take advantage of FidelityFX Super Resolution, but some of the best titles out there already do. Here’s the updated list on AMD’s website: Games that support AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution.

Next comes the sad part of the story, as AMD’s Radeon RX 6500 XT has a couple of significant drawbacks. First of all, the amount of graphics memory on it is far from what you’d expect in 2022 from a gaming desktop GPU: just 4GB of GDDR6, albeit running at a high speed of 18Gbps. The only good thing about that is that it shouldn’t be an attractive option for crypto miners, so it should be easier to procure by the rest of us, gamers and regular users.

RX 6500XT Gaming OC second big drawback of the Radeon RX 6500 XT is that it uses a narrow memory bus, limited to 128-bit. And, if that wasn’t enough, it only has 4 PCIe lanes, which is undesirable for a gaming graphics card. Usually, such GPUs use 16 PCIe lanes, and only some of the very budget-oriented ones are limited to 8 PCIe lanes. Four lanes are barely enough on a motherboard that uses PCI Express Generation 4.0, and it’s severely restricting if you mount this graphics card on a motherboard that supports only PCI Express 3.0.

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