Compute Benchmarks

Now some people don’t need a video card for gaming, they need the processing power for rendering or 2D/3D production, or in some cases people who game also do work on the side. So it is also important to check out the compute performance on all of the video cards that come in. That includes doing a few different tests. My first test was a simple GPU Compute benchmark using Passmark’s Performance Test 10 and the Pulse 6500 XT came in with a 5422 score which was way out in front of the 5500 XT but with a big gap between it and the GTX 1070 which is the next card up.

Blender is always my favorite compute benchmark because the open-source 3D rendering software is very popular and it isn’t a synthetic benchmark. Here I render all six scenes and combine the total time it takes in seconds using the provided Blender Benchmark on the 2.93.1 build. The Pulse 6500 XT is not the card to be rendering in Blender. To do the full six renders, the Pulse 6500 XT took a total of 6138 seconds or 102 minutes, a half longer than it took for the GTX 1650 even.