WTF AMD!? RX 6500 XT Review

[Gav]

I was hoping the RX 6500 XT would be the best budget GPU for 2022. It really had a chance in gaming performance framerates and power consumption. But AMD might have cut off a bit too much for the RX 6500 XT price vs the RX 5500 XT and RX 580. Not only that the Media Engine for Encoding of H.264 and H.265 content is pretty much gone too.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - RX 6500 XT Specs vs 5500XT
1:38 - RX 6500 XT Price
2:40 - GPU Mining Discussion
3:02 - Compact GPUs, MISSING Connectors!
4:06 - WHY AMD!? Hardware Encoding goes MIA
5:09 - Rendering Performance
5:56 - PCIe Scaling (Gen4 vs Gen3)
7:02 - Competitive Scaling
7:26 - 1080p Gaming Benchmarks
8:35 - Power Consumption
8:54 - A Step BACKWARDS for Budget GPUs

 

[Shadowmeph]

cool so I wont upgrade from my old 8gb rx480 lol

 

[Shadowarez]

i shoulda kept the RX 580 Red Devil then dangit. oh well maybe next gen.

 

[sswilson]

Wow!!! What a steaming pile of poop!!!!!!

 

[Shadowarez]

64bit bus >< haven't seen something that narrow since Early days lol.

 

[Bond007]

So if you have a board with pcie gen 4, need a lower end gpu, don’t do any non-gaming gpu workloads, can’t find any older but better gpus, and for some reason don’t want av1 capability, then this is the gpu for you!

For everyone else, keep looking.

 

[sswilson]

It sounds like it was designed as a low-end OEM only card not intended for the consumer market.

 

[anabioz]

Or maybe mining?

 

[sswilson]

Or maybe mining?

Current day mining requires more than 4GB for any kind of profitability.

 

[anabioz]

Current day mining requires more than 4GB for any kind of profitability.

That's right, you need at least 4.5GB, therefore at a minimum a 6GB Card... I didn't notice this was a 4GB card... what a waste...

Specs:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-6500-xt