ASUS Intros Radeon RX 6500 XT DUAL OC V2 Edition Graphics Card

[btarunr]

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.



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[Craptacular]

Why can't this card die already?!

 

[_JP_]

And yet, it won't be cheap enough to be relevant.

 

[P4-630]

DOA

 

[Keullo-e]

They should've released a 8GB model at least. Now it's like any other dual-slot 6500 XT which was already a meh-tier card when it was released, the GPU crisis was the only reason why it was only a somewhat reasonable release.

 

[bonehead123]

Why can't this card die already?!

it IS dead, but AsSus is the only one that refuses to accept that fact

4GB ????? Hello AsSus, this is 2006 calling, and we want ALL our antique GPU's back, like yesterday !

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Yeah, 8GB could make a reasonable argument for itself. 4GB? E-waste basically.

 

[Fouquin]

it IS dead, but AsSus is the only one that refuses to accept that fact

ASRock also released a 6500 and 6400 this month for some ungodly reason.

 

[Aura24]

What a waste. My issue with this card is the lack of H264 and H265 encoding. 4 GB is enough VRAM for 1080p basic video editing, but no codec encoding the card is useless. If it did, it would be a great card for entry level video editing.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

it IS dead, but AsSus is the only one that refuses to accept that fact

4GB ????? Hello AsSus, this is 2006 calling, and we want ALL our antique GPU's back, like yesterday !

I mean people say 8GB is enough for modern games, so 4GB should be fine for caveman resolutions like 1080p right? Right?

 

[Chrispy_]

This is about the performance of a $50 RX 580 on ebay.
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.

What a waste. My issue with this card is the lack of H264 and H265 encoding. 4 GB is enough VRAM for 1080p basic video editing, but no codec encoding the card is useless. If it did, it would be a great card for entry level video editing.

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.

 

[LabRat 891]

This is at least the 3rd recently announced Navi24 card. What's going on?
Are the yields on Navi24 *that* good?

 

[wolf]

Remember when AMD rapidly repurposed a mobile GPU into a desktop card while missing expected desktop features, with a gimped bus, performing significantly lower than expected based on the line-up above it, with only 4GB VRAM after publicly saying that's not enough, at an insultingly high MSRP, during a GPU shortage, to fleece as many desperate buyers as they could?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

 

[Minus Infinity]

Why keep flogging a dead turd? FFS how is this still around. A terminator should go back 4 years and wipe out the design team.

 

[WatchThe80s]

These cards are for internet cafes.

 

[Raysterize]

4GB = DOA

 

[Chrispy_]

This is at least the 3rd recently announced Navi24 card. What's going on?
Are the yields on Navi24 *that* good?

I think Navi24 dies are just stupidly cheap to make. They're 100mm2 which is probably $10-20 for Asus to buy.

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.

 

[Keullo-e]

These cards are for internet cafes.

They could use iGPUs.

 

[Chrispy_]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

The 1060 turns 8 in August, and it was sold at the same ~$240 price Asus ask for their 6500XT Dual, and it STILL has more VRAM.

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.

 

[Random_User]

What a waste. My issue with this card is the lack of H264 and H265 encoding. 4 GB is enough VRAM for 1080p basic video editing, but no codec encoding the card is useless. If it did, it would be a great card for entry level video editing.

Exactly, this thing should be paired with strong CPU, but then again, it loses the point as the HW accelerator.

This is about the performance of a $50 RX 580 on ebay.
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.

There's no better words, Sir!

These cards are for internet cafes.

lol. They would rather buy some 8700G, or 7480H mini PCs, with much better result, and pay much lower e-bills. As APUs get the same 4GB+ RAM budget, and the bus in this garbage is so crippled, it's no way better than DDR5 5200, let alone the soldered LPDDR5.

The 1060 turns 8 in August, and it was sold at the same ~$240 price Asus ask for their 6500XT Dual, and it STILL has more VRAM.

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.

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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.

Also, this trash die could easilly be cooled by single 80mm fan, and single slot cooler. There's no way it should have to use this dual-slot heatsink with huge fans, that are most likely are fine with cooling, e.g. 7700XT. This is deliberate scam. Asus, and other companies should be fined for the artificial inflation of the product "value"

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.