The Radeon RX 6500 XT is a performance-segment graphics card by AMD, launched on January 19th, 2022. Built on the 6 nm process, and based on the Navi 24 graphics processor, in its Navi 24 XT variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. This ensures that all modern games will run on Radeon RX 6500 XT. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. The Navi 24 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 107 mm² and 5,400 million transistors. It features 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. The card also has 16 raytracing acceleration cores. AMD has paired 4 GB GDDR6 memory with the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which are connected using a 64-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 2310 MHz, which can be boosted up to 2815 MHz, memory is running at 2248 MHz (18 Gbps effective). Being a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 107 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a. Radeon RX 6500 XT is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 interface. Its price at launch was 199 US Dollars.