AMD RX 6500 XT is Worse Than 2016's GPUs: Benchmarks vs. GTX 1060, 970, 960, & RX 580
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Date: 2022-01-19
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Kutark
I hate defending AMD here, but i think its pretty obvious that the x4 PCI lanes and the 4GB frame buffer was done to make this card useless to miners.
Also, people seem to be forgetting about this pesky little thing called inflation. 200 now is 172 in 2016. Even outside of all the normal market issues we have right now.
I generally agree the card is underwhelming, but i don't think its quite the ripoff GN is stating here. They probably should have priced it more like 179 or 189, but i think this review was a tiny bit unfair in it's assessment.
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I hate defending AMD here, but i think its pretty obvious that the x4 PCI lanes and the 4GB frame buffer was done to make this card useless to miners.
Also, people seem to be forgetting about this pesky little thing called inflation. 200 now is 172 in 2016. Even outside of all the normal market issues we have right now.
I generally agree the card is underwhelming, but i don't think its quite the ripoff GN is stating here. They probably should have priced it more like 179 or 189, but i think this review was a tiny bit unfair in it's assessment.
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milestailprower
Because the 6500XT has no VCE for video encoding, I'd imagine a bunch of 6500XT users will use their iGPU to encode video (such as intel quicksync). Does the limited PCIe bandwidth create issues when passing the video back to the iGPU? I'd imagine sending raw video back (especially at higher resolutions) will cause problems - even for PCIe 4.0 users. I'd really like to see tests on this.
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Because the 6500XT has no VCE for video encoding, I'd imagine a bunch of 6500XT users will use their iGPU to encode video (such as intel quicksync). Does the limited PCIe bandwidth create issues when passing the video back to the iGPU? I'd imagine sending raw video back (especially at higher resolutions) will cause problems - even for PCIe 4.0 users. I'd really like to see tests on this.
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CPPC
I feel like they didn t focus on encoding because a 4gb gpu isn t good enough USUALLY to game and stream on twitch for example. It can barely hold a fart in the wind to gaming, imagine trying to stream that and game. My wife started streaming on a 1070 and that had 8gb of vram and there was so many games that struggled. She s hella happy with her 3070 now and was worth every penny at microcenter
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I feel like they didn t focus on encoding because a 4gb gpu isn t good enough USUALLY to game and stream on twitch for example. It can barely hold a fart in the wind to gaming, imagine trying to stream that and game. My wife started streaming on a 1070 and that had 8gb of vram and there was so many games that struggled. She s hella happy with her 3070 now and was worth every penny at microcenter
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Александр
There's one thing where I disagree with Steve though. He says that he can't understand how cutting the PCIe lanes so much can be a significant cost saving when actually it can because external interfaces take quite a lot of space on the die, especially for such a small die it amounts to a significant percentage of the area. Not that I would support such measures in this case.
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There's one thing where I disagree with Steve though. He says that he can't understand how cutting the PCIe lanes so much can be a significant cost saving when actually it can because external interfaces take quite a lot of space on the die, especially for such a small die it amounts to a significant percentage of the area. Not that I would support such measures in this case.
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Hamarta
This product is symbol of AMD's mockery to common gamer. I can't believe how low AMD has fallen from the champion of budget product, to the greedy villain thats even worse than Intel. Look at CPU segment, AMD doesn't even care to release Ryzen 3 lineup anymore, heck even Ryzen 5 is priced EVEN HIGHER than Core i5. Shame for you AMD. How the budget champion has fallen.
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This product is symbol of AMD's mockery to common gamer. I can't believe how low AMD has fallen from the champion of budget product, to the greedy villain thats even worse than Intel. Look at CPU segment, AMD doesn't even care to release Ryzen 3 lineup anymore, heck even Ryzen 5 is priced EVEN HIGHER than Core i5. Shame for you AMD. How the budget champion has fallen.
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Andy
It's actually an unprecedented genius-level move from AMD. See, you release a card that's so bad that scalpers buy it up and physically can not resell them, even at MSRP. Thus, they have to lower prices on other cards to recoup their losses, and the GPU market is saved. Thanks AMD, you really did it.
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It's actually an unprecedented genius-level move from AMD. See, you release a card that's so bad that scalpers buy it up and physically can not resell them, even at MSRP. Thus, they have to lower prices on other cards to recoup their losses, and the GPU market is saved. Thanks AMD, you really did it.
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J.C.
Wasn't the lack of performance means to be a gesture to avoid use by miners? Essentially make a card that fits into a narrow niche that wasn't meant to be high performance but a stop gap until the market adjusts.
Yeah, it sucks because it was supposed to...which is weird.
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Wasn't the lack of performance means to be a gesture to avoid use by miners? Essentially make a card that fits into a narrow niche that wasn't meant to be high performance but a stop gap until the market adjusts.
Yeah, it sucks because it was supposed to...which is weird.
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kaupaxup
What better way to sell higher profit margin cards in the 600-1200 range than to release horrendous garbage at the low end? Nvidia strangely saves some face by not prostrating itself to share holders to quite the same extent.
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What better way to sell higher profit margin cards in the 600-1200 range than to release horrendous garbage at the low end? Nvidia strangely saves some face by not prostrating itself to share holders to quite the same extent.
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Andrew
Still rocking the 980 Ti, I recently did a complete teardown and replaced all of the thermal interface materials with Thermal Grizzly products. Temperatures dropped 20C under extreme loads. Yea, the old TIM was bad.
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Still rocking the 980 Ti, I recently did a complete teardown and replaced all of the thermal interface materials with Thermal Grizzly products. Temperatures dropped 20C under extreme loads. Yea, the old TIM was bad.
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Coury
So...I should keep my Duke 1070ti then...wow, who would think that my old 450 1070ti from 2018 would end up being a great deal in 2022? I was hoping to upgrade to a 4k setup, but nope, I'm stuck with 2560x1080 60hz.
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So...I should keep my Duke 1070ti then...wow, who would think that my old 450 1070ti from 2018 would end up being a great deal in 2022? I was hoping to upgrade to a 4k setup, but nope, I'm stuck with 2560x1080 60hz.
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