74% of GPUs from surveyed systems match or beat the Radeon RX 6500 XT
Steam Hardware Survey, October 2026
- As fast or faster
- 74.2%
- Uncertain
- 0.9%
- Slower
- 24.8%
- Share of GPUs from surveyed systems
- 0.2%
- Performance
- Tier 21 of 55
- Type
- Desktop
Supported features
- Ray tracing
Supported
DXR 1.1 · 1st-generation Ray Accelerators
- Upscaling
Supported
- FSR 1 (spatial)
- FSR 2/3 upscaling (temporal)
- XeSS Super Resolution · compatible
- Radeon Super Resolution (driver)
- Frame generation
Supported
- FSR 3 Frame Generation
- AMD Fluid Motion Frames (driver)
- Mesh shaders
Supported
DirectX 12
- DirectX 12 Ultimate
Supported
Feature level 12_2 · Shader Model 6.8 · Vulkan 1.4 · Metal 3
RDNA 2 architecture · Feature support across GPUs