Sapphire releases Radeon RX 6500 XT with 8GB of memory

Video card manufacturer Sapphire has announced an 8GB version of the Radeon RX 6500 XT. The relatively modest GPU therefore has twice as much GDDR6 memory as all other variants of the RX 6500 XT. The price of the 8GB variant has not yet been announced.

The version of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6500 XT with 8GB memory recently appeared on the manufacturer’s official website and is identical to the 4GB variant in practically all other specifications. The only minor difference is the clock speed; the 8GB variant has a boost and ‘game’ clock speed of 2855 and 2695 megahertz. That’s marginally higher than the promised boost and ‘game’ clock frequency of 2825 and 2685MHz of the original variant.

Nevertheless, doubling the amount of vram seems like a logical move by Sapphire, despite the same bandwidth of 144GB/s. In the review of the standard 4GB variant of the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, Tweakers wrote: “In Doom Eternal, the RX 6500 XT also manages to exceed 60 frames per second at Medium settings, but the difference with its predecessor and many other maps is huge. The game requires quite a bit of video memory on Ultra settings, so a lot of the maps are missing there.”

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