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 PowerColor RX 6500 XT Fighter 8GB scored a 5565 here which was 200 points above the overclocked 4GB 6500 XT but still came in below the RTX 3050 6GB which scored a 6136.
Blender is always my favorite compute benchmark because the open-source 3D rendering software is very popular and it isn’t a synthetic benchmark. With the latest version of Blender, they redid the benchmark so we now have a new test that runs three different renderings and gives each a score. I have all three stacked together so we can see the overall performance. The PowerColor RX 6500 XT Fighter 8GB and with that the original 4GB 6500 XT both struggled in all three of the Blender tests. The RTX 3050 6GB is down at the bottom of the charts as well but was still noticeably ahead of the PowerColor RX 6500 XT Fighter 8GB in all three tests.
