MSI HAS A REPUTATION FOR BEING ONE OF THE BEST GAMING BRANDS ON THE MARKET The latest iteration of MSI’s iconic MECH series brings a performance-focused design that maintains the essentials to accomplish any task at hand. Rocking a trusted dual TORX 3.0 fan arrangement laid into a rigid industrial design lets this sharp looking graphics card fit into any build. AMD Radeon™ RX 6500 XT graphics cards deliver serious 1080p gaming and impressive frame rates. The power of AMD RDNA™ 2 architecture is unleashed with up to 16 powerful graphics compute units, coupled with all ultra-high bandwidth AMD Infinity Cache™, and up to 4GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory. BEND THE RULES, NOT THE CARD! Reinforcing the full length of the 6500XT Mech 2X is a clean brushed finished backplate to increase the overall rigidity of the GPU, as well as protecting the sensitive internal components and aiding with passive heat dissipation. TORX FAN 3.0 The award-winning MSI TORX Fan 3.0 design keeps the limits of thermal performance turning. Fan blades alternate between traditional blades and dispersion blades that focus and accelerate airflow into the heatsink. THERMAL PADDING Stay frosty with an abundance of thermal padding which provide additional heat dissipation for board components. TOTALLY COOL CORE PIPES This incredible design spreads the heat a long the full length of the heatsink for superior cooling. CHILLINGLY SILENT Zero Frozr is the calm before the storm, it keeps fans still and maintains silence until cooling is needed. TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR GRAPHICS MSI Afterburner is the most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking software in the world. Take full control of the graphics card while monitoring key system metrics in real-time. It’s free to use and compatible with most other vendor graphics cards. RDNA2 ARCHITECTURE AMD RDNA™ 2 architecture is the foundation of next-generation gaming PCs and consoles. It is the bedrock of the upcoming revolution in PC gaming graphics and cloud gaming. AMD RDNA™ 2 elevates and unifies visual effects and gameplay across multi-gaming platforms, like no other graphics architecture before. AMD Radeon™ RX 6600 XT graphics cards deliver serious 1080p gaming and ultra-high frame rates. Get up to 32 high-performance compute units, groundbreaking AMD Infinity Cache, and up to 8GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory. Experience the next gen of gaming performance with AMD Smart Access Memory technology. BRING OUT ALL THE DETAIL Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) helps increase visual quality by enabling stunning visual sharpness with optional upscaling to restore detail lost after Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) is applied. For games that support FidelityFX CAS, turning off Radeon™ Image Sharpening in Radeon™ Software to avoid over-sharpening is recommended. Chipset Radeon RX 6500 XT Edition Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC Manufacturing Process 7 nm Microarchitecture RDNA 2 Cores & Clocks Streams 1024 Core Clock   Boost Clock   Video Memory (VRAM) Memory Size 4GB Memory Type GDDR6 Memory Clock 18000 MHz Memory Speed (Effective with DDR)   Memory Bus 64 Bit Memory Bandwidth   Memory Data Rate   Cooling Cooling Solution Dual Fan (2) Cooler Design MSI Dual Fan Cooler w/ TORX 3.0 Fans Fitted/Included Backplate Yes I/O & Connectivity Interface PCIe 4.0 (x16) Connectivity 1 x DisplayPort 1.4 1 x HDMI 2.1 Visuals AMD CrossFire Support   AMD Freesync Support No AMD FreeSync Version   HDR Support Yes Microsoft DirectX Support 12 API Max. Concurrent Displays 2 Displays Maximum Digital Resolution 7680x4320 (8K UHD) Maximum Analog (VGA) Resolution   Compute Performance Peak Half Precision Compute Performance (FP16)   Peak Single Precision Compute Performance (FP32)   Peak Double Precision Compute Performance (FP64)   Power & Thermals Graphics Card Power Connectors 1 x 6-pin PCIe Graphics Card TDP/Power   Minimum Recommended PSU   Maximum GPU Temperature   Physical Width Dual Slot Low Profile Support   Dimensions 172 x 112 x 42 mm