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Keyboard | Red Dragon K552 |
Software | Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC 1809 17763.1757 |
The 6500XT was fine, assuming you plugged it into a PCIe Gen 4 system, the x4 nature of the card wasn't a problem.
If you didn't, and used a Gen 3 system which is still the most common, as would be likely, due to the budget nature of the card making it appealing for those who had cheaper/older systems, you would get the equivalent of PCIe Gen 4 x2, which is a tiny amount of bandwidth, and seriously hurt performance in the order of 10-15%.
Not untrue; and I personally know someone that 'fell for' precisely that:
He bought a 6400 for PCIe gen2/3 builds.
Though, in his case (and possibly others') what was attractive was the fact it's a SFF and power-sipping GPU. The performance uplift over the 1050Ti it replaced was just a bonus.
OTOH, The 6500XT is pushed well-beyond the 'efficiency sweet spot'. (In my experience: evidenced by my Powercolor's otherwise more-than-sufficient cooler getting utterly overwhelmed by heat with even a minor OC.) If I ever get around to it, I'd like to de-tune my 6500XT and passively cool it w/ some kit-bashed salvage cooler.
For those of us already using CPUs/APUs 'below' the prospective-performance of this rumored 5600X3D, it's quite attractive.
For me in particular, the 3D Vertical Cache technology is 'damned interesting'; from years-gone-by experience moar cache = moar snap (note: not higher benchmarks).
Even if verifiably not-true today, it doesn't change the 'irrational' parts of my interest.