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From what I've seen so far, the prices are no better than the 6500 XT, rather OCUK has cheaper 6500 XTs.

Power consumption is much better than the 6500 XT, but since it offers 1650 - 1650 super level of performance, it isn't anything radically new, because the 1650 already had nearly this level of performance minus power connector.

If it was £100 it would be much more interesting, but nearly £200? :mad:
 
InfiniteNoise said:
The pricing on this makes no sense, in the UK at least, I've yet to see a 6400 that's cheaper than a 6500.
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I don't know who would buy one at these prices, maybe it is because they cost nearly the same to make? The best deal I've seen is £10 less than the cheapest 6500 XT.
 
lack of media encoder is the big killer here. Could also do with being a bit cheaper. But likely got pretty good performance for a low profile low power card. Frustratingly close to being a really useful bit of kit.
 
Missed opportunity for a cheap GPU for HTPCs or popping into a cheap build like an old Optiplex. Can't see how this fits in given the price of the 6500XT.

To be honest, given that GPU mining is dying off, I think AMD would be better off doing a 6500XT refresh with a bit more memory, as that was the main criticism of that card - despite it deliberately having less memory to try and not appeal to miners.
 
Tetras said:
From what I've seen so far, the prices are no better than the 6500 XT, rather OCUK has cheaper 6500 XTs.

Power consumption is much better than the 6500 XT, but since it offers 1650 - 1650 super level of performance, it isn't anything radically new, because the 1650 already had nearly this level of performance minus power connector.

If it was £100 it would be much more interesting, but nearly £200? :mad:
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Agreed.
 
This might make a nice card for upgrading from the 1050ti in my little Silverstone ML09 media box. Price may be a little steep but if its faster than a £300 gtx 1650 Low profile which is the current benchmark to beat, then its probably about right?

I'm hoping the gigabyte model (or any dual slot model) might allow you to push up the power limit to 75w for a little more boost.

EDIT: ETA PRIME has a video up. The All-New RX 6400 Is A Powerful RDNA2 LP Single Slot GPU! Hands-On Testing - YouTube
 
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This might make a nice card for upgrading from the 1050ti in my little Silverstone ML09 media box. Price may be a little steep but if its faster than a £300 gtx 1650 Low profile then its probably about right?
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My bet is 1650 performance at best. I'd stick with the 1050ti. That or grab a 6600 at the inevitable £300 and less. Longer life, twice as fast, encoders, better resale value.
 
I don't to get too hung up on the media encoders as its mostly a useless feature unless video streaming which this level of card certainly wont be useful for.
 
The_Arbiter said:
My bet is 1650 performance at best. I'd stick with the 1050ti. That or grab a 6600 at the inevitable £300 and less. Longer life, twice as fast, encoders, better resale value.
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Completely agree, I wouldn't upgrade a 1050 ti to a 6400. Though, I suppose it does have a warranty if you can get silly money for the 1050 ti.

MadMatty said:
I don't to get too hung up on the media encoders as its mostly a useless feature unless video streaming which this level of card certainly wont be useful for.
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AV1 was the one I cared about, but this sounds promising:

"It was just back in January that SVT-AV1 0.9 released while this morning SVT-AV1 v1.0 was christened as their latest major milestone. More GPUs are beginning to appear with AV1 encode capabilities while SVT-AV1 1.0 is there for all the CPUs from mobile/desktop to servers for speedy AV1 CPU-based encoding.

With SVT-AV1 1.0 there is additional AVX2 optimizations for making this encoder even faster with modern CPUs. Additionally SVT-AV1 1.0 adds S-frames support, expanded use of fast-decode for more preset levels, visual quality improvements, various fixes, other preset tuning, updated documentation, and other improvements."
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https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SVT-AV1-1.0-Released
 
For those interested, review by Hardware Unboxed,
Should not be hard for Intel to beat with Arc if they price it right
 
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