Tuesday, June 25th 2024
ASRock Intros Radeon RX 6400 Low Profile Graphics Card
ASRock expanded its entry level graphics card lineup with a new low-profile Radeon RX 6400 graphics card. Such a card had been missing in ASRock's lineup, as its only RX 6400 product had been the full-height RX 6400 Challenger, a product design it shared with the RX 6500 XT Challenger OC. This new RX 6400 Low Profile card isn't just half-height (low-profile), but also single-slot, and relies entirely on the PCIe slot for power.
The card's design involves a simple extruded aluminium heatsink ventilated by a 40 mm fan, with the interesting inclusion of idle fan-stop (something other low-profile cards in this segment tend to lack). The card is 150 mm long, and 68.9 mm tall. Out of the box, it comes with the low-profile bracket installed, but a full height bracket is included in the package. Based on the 6 nm "Navi 24" silicon, the RX 6400 is configured 768 stream processors across 12 compute units, and 4 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 64-bit wide memory interface. The company didn't announce pricing.
Source:
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The card's design involves a simple extruded aluminium heatsink ventilated by a 40 mm fan, with the interesting inclusion of idle fan-stop (something other low-profile cards in this segment tend to lack). The card is 150 mm long, and 68.9 mm tall. Out of the box, it comes with the low-profile bracket installed, but a full height bracket is included in the package. Based on the 6 nm "Navi 24" silicon, the RX 6400 is configured 768 stream processors across 12 compute units, and 4 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 64-bit wide memory interface. The company didn't announce pricing.
22 Comments on ASRock Intros Radeon RX 6400 Low Profile Graphics Card
www.zotac.com/us/news/power-pcie-x1
I have the Zotac card you linked, and on multiple systems it refused to function correctly in x1 slots. In those cases the card always worked in the x16 slots. I also suspect the issue is probably firmware/BIOS related because on some systems once an operating system boots up the card functions even in x1 slot, but not always. Maybe it's insufficient power available for those slots, unfortunately I have no way of checking that.
I understand that iGPUs have wrecked the market, but this is a real GDDR6 GPU and likely fully capable of 1080p graphics on medium settings for a lot of games. There needs to be something cheaper than an AMD 7600 or NVidia 4060.
Maybe this AMD 6400 is too little too late, but... its in a very poorly served market. I'm happy to see it, as long as it comes out at the right price.
The problem with iGPUs is you need to wrap a whole PC around them whereas a low end better-than-iGPU dGPU just drops in an existing machine with no extra costs. But now we have the RX 6400 and RTX 3050 6GB at $125 and $170. The 3050 6GB really replaces the 1050/Ti and 1650 at a similar price point but Nvidia's done with anything cheaper than that. The RX 6400 comes closer in price but still ~$20 too high and the SS LP models which fit in any PCIe slot out there start at $160.
Comparing the RX 6400 to the RX 550 is the kicker. Same size die, same TDP, 50% more cores (expected for node shrink), twice the VRAM, half the PCIe lanes, half the bus width but 2.3X the memory speed for a small improvement.
$160 vs $80 MSRP. A single 6400 model currently at $125 which is OKish but even that's $20 too high based on inflation alone.
But yeah, should come like that from the factory
Remember also that the 6400 bogs down when playing at ultra settings because that's how all places test GPUs. But you won't be playing at those, instead using Medium settings on average. So slowdowns happen less or not at all thanks to using less VRAM. Again: Look at the big picture of the whole system.
I used the 6400 at PCIe 3.0 exclusively and yes I was not playing 2022 games but I was playing 2020 and earlier AAA games and it works fine with proper settings. Not going to win any contests but does it let an older PC play modern games at decent settings? Yes it does. The biggest problem with this GPU is the price, it should be ~$99.