Wednesday, June 26th 2024
ASUS Intros Radeon RX 6500 XT DUAL OC V2 Edition Graphics Card
ASUS introduced the Radeon RX 6500 XT DUAL OC V2 graphics card. This is the company's second DUAL branded RX 6500 XT product, the original has a similar appearance, and identical dimensions of 201 mm x 128 mm x 40 mm (length x height x thickness). ASUS has done away with the tiny addressable RGB lighting that the original had. While the new card has an aluminium fin-stack heatsink, its design is slightly different from that of the original. It still uses a single 6 mm-thick heatpipe that makes direct contact with the GPU at the base.
The factory overclock is unchanged between the two cards—2820 MHz boost and 2670 MHz Game clock, compared to AMD reference speeds of 2610 MHz boost and 2310 MHz Game clock. The memory speed is unchanged from the reference spec, at 18 Gbps (GDDR6-effective). Based on the 6 nm "Navi 24" silicon, the RX 6500 XT has all 1,024 stream processors present on the chip enabled. This card gets 4 GB of GDDR6 memory across the GPU's 64-bit memory interface. It draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector. Display outputs include one each of DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.1.
The factory overclock is unchanged between the two cards—2820 MHz boost and 2670 MHz Game clock, compared to AMD reference speeds of 2610 MHz boost and 2310 MHz Game clock. The memory speed is unchanged from the reference spec, at 18 Gbps (GDDR6-effective). Based on the 6 nm "Navi 24" silicon, the RX 6500 XT has all 1,024 stream processors present on the chip enabled. This card gets 4 GB of GDDR6 memory across the GPU's 64-bit memory interface. It draws power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connector. Display outputs include one each of DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.1.
19 Comments on ASUS Intros Radeon RX 6500 XT DUAL OC V2 Edition Graphics Card
4GB ????? Hello AsSus, this is 2006 calling, and we want ALL our antique GPU's back, like yesterday !
This is about the size of a $50 RX 580 on ebay
This is about as pointless in 2024 as a $50 RX 580 on ebay.
The $50 RX 580 on ebay won't have a warranty, but Asus' warranty is worth jack shit right now anyway.
If you have the $200+ that Asus want for this, then you could actually buy something that isn't a turd.At this point, aren't the most basic IGPs better than the 6400 and 6500 for video editing? Unless you're talking about a headless PC with no graphics card, I'm not sure there's a worse option than the incomplete Navi24 die that was never supposed to leave the realm of laptop auxiliary GPUs in the first place.
Are the yields on Navi24 *that* good?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Profit margins on these gimped cards with weak VRMs and paltry 4GB of cheap old VRAM are completely insane. It's a license to print money selling eWaste to people who don't know better.
There's no defence for Asus' stupid pricing on these 6500XT cards either, since other vendors have been selling 8GB RX 6600 cards for $200-225 for the last 2-ish years.
The 6600 is the real entry-level GPU and everything below it is just a scam: Awful performance/$ in a pricing tier where performance/$ is the single most important factor in any purchasing decision.
The pricing is so messed up that there's no way to excuse Asus, it's very very clear that this is predatory pricing designed to extort the uninformed. A good portion of people buying in this price point will make decisions based on brand name, box size, selling price. "$262.98 is more than $199.99 so the more expensive card must be better". We all know people like that.
To rub the wound, the prices utside of US/NA, will be so atrocious, it's better to buy some new 6700XT/7600 in EU, and still have better end price and warranty.