PC Gamer: RX 6500 XT looks worse on paper than AMD's $199 GPU from six years ago

[Uriel]

I've seen a few comments from people that said it looks like things are going backwards in the GPU market. On the plus side, power consumption is down. Otherwise - this makes for rather depressing reading I think...

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amd-rx-6500-xt-worse-than-rx-480/

 

[Alt0153]

**** bus speed and no memory, what can go wrong

thats at least a £400 card there

 

[Grim5]

That's pretty **** lol

 

[Harlequin]

Lots of tech tubers are saying this will be a 3ghz card which will more than make up for the rest? Remember bus speed isnt everything (looking at you R9 290x)

 

[FredFlint]

64bit bus!

 

[Uriel]

Lots of tech tubers are saying this will be a 3ghz card which will more than make up for the rest? Remember bus speed isnt everything (looking at you R9 290x)

If that was the case the flops would be higher.

 

[RavenXXX2]

And

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-6500-xt-is-limited-to-pcie-4-0-x4-interface

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/rw0gph/6500_xt_wont_get_hardware_encoding/

 

[Kelt]

What a **** card.

 

[Uriel]

This may be the most disappointing graphics card since the Geforce FX 5200.

On the other hand performance is probably not going to be that far off an Xbox Series S. If it can manage to run new titles on par with that console at 1080p and costs a bit less than the console, it'll do the job for a few people.

 

[heatonpkmassive]

Can't wait to get my mitts on this one.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

The regression doesn't surprise me. Graphics card prices have been extortionate for over a year. Reducing the performance is the only alternative to hiking the prices. Releasing a bargain isn't an option.

 

[The_Arbiter]

What the actual.

I was really waiting for a new modern card that was at a reasonable price level. I'm bothered about the memory limits so much, but no encoding whatsoever really really is not helpful. My rx460 2gb does and i use it!
Sure i can use my R5 3600, but it's much much slower even when using all 12 threads at 100%

 

[Joxeon]

I thought the 6600 was rubbish given it had worse MSRP price to performance over the 5600XT but this is a new low... what a waste of sand.

 

[Kelt]

AMD aren't doing themselves any favours by releasing this junk.

 

[Uriel]

Tomshardware making a good point. At PCI-E 3.0 the bus bandwidth is going to be halved, which may present a significant enough bottleneck to affect performance on older motherboards. PCI-E 3.0 at X4 is limited to 4GB/s.

So this really may not be the best card for an affordable upgrade. Even if they did manage to find a decent spot on the price/performance curve.

 

[NinjaCool]

The 6500XT does have a big 1GHz clock speed advantage over the 5500XT together with faster GDDR6 memory.
My biggest issues with the 6500XT besides having only 4GB and a 64bit memory bus, is that I fear the price is going to end up double of the MSRP :/

Here is a bit more detailed specs:

 

[robfosters]

They’re actually doing things for comic effect now

 

[Uriel]

So AMD are claiming that 4GB GDDR6 was an intentional choice to ensure that mining appeal is limited: https://www.pcworld.com/article/563...in-amd-and-nvidias-new-budget-gpu-battle.html

 

[Joxeon]

So AMD are claiming that 4GB GDDR6 was an intentional choice to ensure that mining appeal is limited: https://www.pcworld.com/article/563...in-amd-and-nvidias-new-budget-gpu-battle.html

Next they will be saying they increased the MSRP to put off scalpers.

 

[StarShock]

I thought this with the 6600 and same here. I think amd are specifically making these to be as cheap to produce as possible. I'd like to believe that its an attempt to get around the current shortages for the good of the market. But who knows why big corporations actually do things beyond "make the money go brrrrr"

It is a depressing state of affairs, best case scenario this thing will match the price to performance of the last gen with half the memory. And far more likely to lag behind on performance while actually hitting the market at a much higher price. But I don't think amd are trying to screw their customers over, so much as the market is screwing everyone over.