ASRock Announces Radeon RX 6500 XT Graphics Cards
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cucaulay malkin
minimum effort for maximum msrp from amd
seriously,a rx580-590 card re-released at $200 with 4G 64-bit...... I'd rather just get an 5000 series apu instead and wait for a proper card to be available than waste 200 on this.
KissSh0t
RX 580 is re-release of RX 480 right?
Mannerheim
64bit memorybus is so last season.
justdoge
such a flop
cucaulay malkin
that's not that important,580 was a very good card even if a re-release of 480.but that was 2017-18.Not 2022.
I think cutting down the specs down to a bare minimum to hit a 200usd msrp is not a good solution to the problem of availability,not in the slightest.
that is if we're gonna see it at msrp.cause miners will take 4G cards too and make them useful.
KissSh0t
Ohhh. now I get what you mean, and yeah.. just learned about the memory bus... this one is a hard pass for me.
m4dn355
When it comes to 64-bit memory bus, the first one that comes to my mind from red camp is ATi HD 2400 Pro. 4Gb gddr6 vs. 0.25Gb ddr2 (2022-64-bit-2007).
CPC_RedDawn
it has infinity cache so that 64bit memory bus will act more like as 128/192bit bus. Much like how the 6800+ and above have only a 256bit bus but infinity cache helps feed the core with 1.6TB/s of data allowing AMD to save money on a less complex memory config.
the biggest downfall of this card is 4GB vram pool but even then its aimed at esports and mmo titles and not triple A games and FSR now being inside the drivers it will help the card along too. It should of had 6GB though. But this is 4GB of 18Gbps G6 memory not the slower 16Gbps found on the 6800's or 14Gbps found on the 3050.
The card is also on 6nm so it won't take away from 7nm production and 4GB memory means miners will defo not want this card. I do think they should of come in a bit more aggressive with the price maybe around $149-$179 and had it be 6GB.
I am looking forward to reviews as I want to see how well RDNA2 scales, it could give us more of an idea how the steam deck and new samsung SoC's will perform.
cucaulay malkin
16mb has only 37% hit rate at 1080p
so not even +50%,let alone 100%
even 6g with 96-bit would be a much better configuration,with a larger pool and higher bandwidth
8g 128-bit is gonna do the same thing to 4G 64-bit as 3090 does to 6700xt at 4K,even worse since Navi22 has a 50% hit rate at 4K,this is less than 40%.
the most similar situation is 6600xt vs 3060 at resolutions above 1080p,where 6600xt goes from 10% faster to 5% slower when the hit rate goes into the 30-40% area.
and that is 128-bit w.32mb IC against 192-bit,on a faster die,not 64 vs 128 with a slower die.so not from faster to slower,it's gonna go from bad to worse around 960p-1080p
kapu
Not from AMD perspective . It will sell like fresh and hot buns . Market is soo hungry for any GPU that can run AAA titles...
And this seems to be usless for miners : 64 bit + 4GB .
In current toxic market AMD did best to support gamers and cash in - maximum value ( small - cheap chip - high msrp).
It is WIN for AMD and WIN for desperate gamers - in normal market this card would be pathetic.
Celcius
Methinks that if this performs somewhere around the 4Gb RX 480/580, it will be just fine. (And, I think that is very likely possibility.)
It may be that a bit too much effort is being devoted to casting shade on the bus-width prior to seeing some results of hands-on testing. And, as someone with a few of my PCs still running 4Gb graphic cards, (because, in this environment, what other choice is there?), I have found that there is still a bit more to be had from such a modest amount of VRAM at 1080p than most people may realize. Yes, it most definitely can be limiting, but the list of titles that will run just fine at 1080p with 4Gb is a hell of a lot longer than the list of those that can not.
Even if it sells for quite a bit more than $200 USD, (and, of course, it will), when faced with either buying something like a used 4Gb Polaris card at about the same price, or this new RDNA2 product, I think most people desperate enough for something to game with would find this to be the better choice if it has at least comparable performance. It's just disappointing that this is the circumstances many people find themselves in.
Now, what is going on with that 8-pin power socket on this ASRock? Perhaps a re-cycled 6600XT photo?
Keitosha
I hope so for the latter, but more likely the crypto/scalper retards will be eagerly waiting behind the assembly line with their carts/pallets.
I'm gradually moving away from PC gaming to console gaming. This whole hobby doesn't interest me anymore with todays prices and availability. Plus the recent need for some to implement NFT's in games (on top of DLC, MTX, ads and looking at SqEnix, Ubisoft, Peter Molyneux) makes me appreciate older/retro/indie titles even more.
A real low end card with the latest codec support is too much to ask, let alone single slot (Inno3D single slot GT1650 4GB being the last and fastest one). Thank god for APU's to include RDNA2 in the near future.
Denial
Turns out these cards don't support AV1 Decode or HVEC Encode either. Kind of weird to segment those features off of budget cards.
DanielRX
I think the RTX3050 will be the best option, this RX6500XT has good entry specs and the price is not good.
cucaulay malkin
good grief this thing needs pcie4
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-6500-xt-is-limited-to-pcie-4-0-x4-interface
on anything other than r3000/5000/11th/12th gen you're running on pcie3 x4
this is 5500xt 4G once again,but even worse with a 64-bit bus
https://tpucdn.com/review/msi-radeon-rx-5500-xt-gaming-x-8-gb/images/assassins-creed-odyssey-1920-1080.png
can you possibly cut down a card more ?
aufkrawall2
It's like a GT 1030, but with an impertinent price tag. Well, at least the 1030 could decode VP9 at its time, whereas the 6500 XT can't decode AV1 more than one year after cards which already could. This is really pathetic by AMD. The 6600 XT was already bad, but they are just out of bounds with the 6500 e-waste.
user1
AV1 decode is supported on all rdna 2 gpu, has amd not implemented driver support yet?
aufkrawall2
RX 6500/XT hardware apparently doesn't support it: https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-6500-xt
AV1 has been working since the first drivers on other RDNA2 GPUs.
kapu
200$ (probably sold as 300$) budget card . Good times 🙂
user1
Strange , could be a typo beige goby (code name for the navi 24 die ) is listed as vcn3.0 here,
https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#radeonvcnvideocorenexthardware
Maybe the silicon is broken? as of right now technically av1 support would be enabled for it on linux unless I missed something
