Nice to get it confirmed, but many of us already deduced this: only x 4 (=laptop) and only performs well with PCIe 4.0 x4 (so no existing AMD APUs, unsure about Intel but they'd hardly design for those, would they?), no decoder for AV1 (since the APU will have those).A Linux NPI SW Architect at AMD now confirms the 6500XT (Navi 24) was in fact designed for the upcoming Ryzen 6000 laptops.
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/for...h-radeon-rx-6500-xt-support/page2#post1303444
That explains the missing H264/265/AV1 encoding (and PCIe 4.0 ×4) since the Rembrandt APU itself has encoding support, including AV1 decoding.
The only question remains: when running at laptop clocks (as clocking it at nearly 3GHz consumes over 100W), how does it compare Rembrandt's iGPU?
Poorly I would think. So looks like it is aimed lower end laptop and OEM checklist: like those MX350 or similar paired with Intel Iris iGPU. Pointless