Radeon RX 6500M: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The Radeon RX 6500M is AMD's 2022 entry gaming die — Navi 24 silicon at 50W that became the default GPU of the budget Victus generation. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 6 catalog models that carry it.

Where the Radeon RX 6500M sits in 2026

A catalog score of 49.6 ranks it 125th of 341 — the top half of the table. The neighbors: the API-remapped RTX 4090 Laptop record (50.7), the current RTX 5060 (50.3) and its own refresh sibling RX 6550M (50.2) above; the Radeon 780M pair (49.4/49.3) and GeForce MX550 (49.1) below. An entry die ranked inside touching distance of a current-generation RTX card is the modern small-card story.

What the chip brings

RDNA 2 on TSMC 6nm, Navi 24 die: 1024 stream processors, 4GB of GDDR6, a 50W envelope, 4.9 teraflops and Resizable BAR support. Public benchmarks: PassMark 7284, Time Spy 4372, Fire Strike 14018. The 50W budget is what makes it a laptop-native design — full performance without the cooling demands of bigger dies.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Valorant at 130, DOTA 2 at 102, Forza Horizon 5 at 101, Counter-Strike 2 at 100, Fortnite at 95, Battlefield 5 and Far Cry 5 at 75 each, Forza Horizon 4 at 70, Cyberpunk 2077 at 66, The Witcher 3 at 57, Metro Exodus at 50, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 35. Esports at triple digits and the full modern set playable at high — an honest 1080p card throughout.

Laptops that carry it

All six listings are the HP Victus 15 family across 2021-2024: the fa2016ns at $1015, fb1013dx at $656, 15z-fb100 at $662, fb2063dx at $712, the 2023 AMD edition at $922 and fb0003nr at $652. Fleet medians: best-CPU 72.2, gaming index 59, performance index 73 — the best-GPU median (63.1) reflects the stronger options in some Victus trims. A single-chassis, multi-year roster: the budget-gaming standardbearer with the widest price band ($652-1015) of any pool in this batch.

Bottom line

The RX 6500M is the definition of a value GPU: a top-half ranking, a game table that clears 1080p high everywhere except the heaviest two rows, and a six-listing host fleet that starts at $652. Cross-shop within the roster itself — same GPU, $360 of price spread between Victus trims is where the bargains hide. The 4GB buffer is the only asterisk, and the table shows exactly where it bites.