Friday, January 7th 2022
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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Limited To PCIe 4.0 x4 Interface
The recently announced AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT only features a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface according to specifications and images of the card published on the ASRock site. This is equivalent to a PCIe 3.0 x8 link or a PCIe 2.0 x16 connection and is a step down from the Radeon 6600 XT which features a PCIe 4.0 x8 interface and the Radeon 6700 XT with a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. This fact is only specified by ASRock with AMD, Gigabyte, ASUS, and MSI not mentioning the PCIe interface on their respective pages. The RX 6500 XT also lacks some of the video processing capabilities of other RX 6000 series cards including the exclusion of H264/HEVC encoding and AV1 decoding.
Sources:
ASRock (via VideoCardz), 3DCenter
118 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Limited To PCIe 4.0 x4 Interface
Even if the x4 interface limits it slightly, it'll be way faster than the integrated graphics or GTX 750Ti it's replacing, for example.
It's just that some people will complain that they were promised 60fps in Fortnite on max settings and they're only getting 56fps; They'll have a valid complaint.
This is equivalent to a PCIe 3.0 x8 link or a PCIe 2.0 x16 connection.
Yeah.
Fuck you too AMD.
That said, missing codecs thing is def concerning for this card.
But 200$ for this one, a 3050 8GB looks like very cheap with MRSP 249$ against this 6500.
Primary the Card would be a choice for User with older Hardware and then they got only PCIe 3.0 x4,
its a slower connection than a GT 1030.
I really won't care too much if you blast the card, but please don't make it look like AMDs design decisions for this are comparable with the super shady stuff the "evil competition" does. It just makes the "evil competition" look better and enables them to do more shady stuff.
Average people on a budget like this will just score the cheapest, bottom-of-the-barrel board and call it a day. At this price bracket w/ a 65W part, there's nothing wrong w/ that either. And it'll be quite a bit cheaper than a b660.
I await reviews, and then like most commenters, I already have a better GPU, I wouldn't be buying it, it wouldn't matter to me, I would expire no butt hurtness.
"The RX 6500 XT also lacks some of the video processing capabilities of other RX 6000 series cards including the exclusion of H264/HEVC encoding and AV1 decoding." - I can't understand or endorse AMD's decision on that. Even the HTPC market will look away now.
But if someone is looking at bottom of the barrel stuff, they should not even be thinking about this card for a while to begin with.
Because, let's face it, it WILL be price inflated, even if it won't make a good miner. Demand WILL be crazy, and sellers WILL take advantage of it regardless. At best I expect it to match price/performance of those already inflated "miner approved" cards, and for some time after launch maybe even worse.
I guess some people are born to ridicule public descent, and hand their autonomy over to something with a logo, while sneering at those clever enough to have seen it coming. We have seen a lot of these types over the last few years.