AMD Radeon RX 6500XT to cost 299 EUR in France

Radeon RX 6500XT

The actual retail price is not great, but not the worst either. 

Cowcotland is reporting on the actual retail price of the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card. According to the site, the card is to cost 299 EUR in stores, which is more or less 100 EUR than the official price. We reached out to Cowcotland for a comment and they confirm that this is the first listing price of the upcoming custom model with all applying sales taxes.

AMD did not communicate the pricing for Europe yet, which is typically the case when the card is not released. However, we have a chance to compare the official US MSRP (suggest retail price) for the cards that were already released (and have their EUR MSRP) with the actual retail listing. In this case, the RX 6500XT is shaping to be just as overcharged as existing designs.

As a side note, it is kind of interesting that many retailers actually list RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT at the same price.

According to AMD, the main competitor for RX 6500 XT is a bit old but still popular GeForce GTX 1650. This card is still easily available for as low as €280-310. With AMD’s performance claims in mind, it does not sound like a bad choice over GTX.

AMD Radeon RX 6500XT vs GTX 1650, Source: AMD

Yesterday we made a story that RX 6500 XT is limited to PCI Express 4.0 x4 interface, which could impact performance in some cases. However, that is for a debate once the card is released. NVIDIA is yet to respond with GeForce RTX 3050 launching in late January. This model will not have such limitations and it will feature twice as much memory (8GB), but will also cost more: 249 USD according to NVIDIA’s alternative reality.

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT will be released on January 19th. Board partners have already shown their custom designs which will be the only available version of RX 6500XT. AMD confirmed they are not planning to release its reference design, which was already the case with RX 6600 series.

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series
VideoCardz	RX 6600 XT	RX 6600	RX 6500 XT	RX 6400
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Architecture	7nm RDNA2	7nm RDNA2	6nm RDNA2	6nm RDNA2
GPU	Navi 23 XT	Navi 23 XL	Navi 24 XT	Navi 24 XL
Cores	2048	1792	1024	768
Infinity Cache	32 MB	32 MB	16 MB	16 MB
Ray Accelerators	32	28	16	12
Game Clock	2359 MHz	2044 MHz	2610 MHz	2039 MHz
Boost Clock	2589 MHz	2491 MHz	2815 MHz	2321 MHz
Memory Clock	16 Gbps	14 Gbps	18 Gbps	16 Gbps
Memory	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	4 GB GDDR6	4 GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	128-bit	128-bit	64-bit	64-bit
Bandwidth	256 GB/s	224 GB/s	144 GB/s	128 GB/s
TBP	160W	132W	107W	53W
MSRP	379 USD	329 USD	199 USD	OEM
Launch Date	August 2021	October 2021	January 2022	1H 2022

Source: Cowcotland