Wednesday, June 12th 2024

ASRock Intros Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB Phantom Gaming
ASRock this week introduced the Radeon RX 6500 XT 8 GB Phantom Gaming graphics card. The RX 6500 XT comes with a reference memory size of 4 GB over the tiny 64-bit GDDR6 memory bus of the "Navi 24" silicon it's based on, but ASRock decided to double this, probably using high-density 32 Gbit memory chips, or two sets of 16 Gbit chips piggybacking each other. The card is spruced up with Phantom Gaming styling, is 24 cm long, standard height, and 2 slots thick. The cooling solution features an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that's ventilated by a pair of fans. Power is drawn from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. Display outputs include one each of DisplayPort 1.4, and HDMI 2.1 with VRR. This isn't the first RX 6500 XT with 8 GB, Sapphire has had an 8 GB Pulse graphics card in its lineup for a while now. ASRock didn't reveal the pricing of this card.
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47 Comments on ASRock Intros Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB Phantom Gaming
Ah well, somehow out of this idiocy we got a 4060LP card which was actually a decent upgrade over the 1650LP and the joke RX 6400.
People used to be able to grab a solid video card for $200, inflation included, or at least something that works for $70. It's a bloody shame.
All RX 470/80/570/80 I've ever bought are still in good condition, every single one of them has the correct BIOS (except my personal one that's undergoing fine tuning, I'm still in search of the best freq/voltage curve) and appropriate cooling if we don't count one poor thing that died of KCAS. Never use KCAS PSUs, especially in mining operations!
However, for 200 bucks, it's an easy RX 6600 or even RTX 3060 on the aftermarket. Which is... tenfold better than RX 6500 XT. Even if we don't get any warranty whatsoever.
Yes, it's not 6500 here, it's 6400, and it's not as bad as it gets sloped all the time.
Seriously. I understand, that the card might find some use, in e.g. terminals, etc. But it's a digrace to the PCB, cooling and resources wasted on this garbage. There are better GPUs to be used. The low profile single/dual slot card, is maximum what it should have had. And 64 bid bus is a colmplete joke.
Although the cooler is cheaply made, it still uses copper for for heatpipes and traces, as much as aluminium, and PCB components, which again, could have find a much better use. This feels like intentionally securing the bottom line prices, by releasing the trash cards with trash chips, just to have a reason to not lower the prices for the rest of the stack. Because I'm sure, this card won't be sold for less than $170-$180 real prices in the stores.
This is nothing short of the same type of announcement of the GTX1650 with GDDR6, over GDDR5. It gives, at best, a 9~11% "oomph" in 3 or 4 scenarios. No price change over the current stuff.
Notwithstanding, corporations are not classified as charity for a reason. Your wallet has power, use it.
Now, you run out of VRAM, THEN it becomes a major problem, as the launch 6400 showed.