Friday, January 7th 2022
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
As I said I couldn't care any less how this performs, I'm not buying it.
I sneer at those who think they know me from a paragraph of text or think they can derive greater meaning than I presented.
I laugh at fools who waste their time shit posting about things they'll never buy or want too.
And those that choose to attack an individual on his opinion rather than the topic at hand, trying to sound smart.
You feeling defensive, did you take the troll jab to heart perhaps , act on it , that'll prove you aren't?!.
It's now possible that with the RX 6500 XT, that even 1080p recording lags with less than 8 CPU cores, maybe for less than 10 CPU cores for all I know!
A higher number card that looks inferior to 5500 XT, starkly reminds me of AGP-era-pre-AMD Radeons, with the 9000 Pro. :(
Though I do not understand why H265 isn't available, even if only for 1080p. The now long in the tooth RX 580 has the capability.
Then there's directx, you might not have hw decoders but you can still use directx to push the workload to the gpu which will still be faster, not as good as dedicated hw support but still faster than cpu brute force.
Is it bad and silly that a 2022 gpu lacks basic enc/decode features? Yes, it's a damn disgrace but it's not the end of the world
Sometimes you think more than others
But every day, I learn
Sorry @stimpy88 I overreacted.
In terms of motherboard support, if you have a smaller slot that you plan to use for it you can just cut the back part so the card enters, there are even slots that come with the back open for that exact reason but it's possible to also diy'it with a dremel or something
We can just test the performance on pcie 4.0 x4 like the card was designed and then test on pcie 3.0 and pcie 2.0 x4 and will see how much it looses, just like any card.
I don't think anyone is arguing that the card will be bottlenecked on pcie 4.0 which is very unlikely for a low end card like this, with older gens that's a different story and the discussion here
The AsRock B550 Steel Legend mobo allows selection of PCIE Gen but im forcing it to run PCIE 4 despite using a XFX R7 250X GHOST. It boots fine on uefi lol.
But I just read your later post. No problems, and I'm sorry for the tone of my post too. Two reactions don't always make a good one!
Have a go at being less insinuating and insulting yourself though , might help.
AMD's numbers aren't bad, but they're AMD's.