PSA: GPU-Z shows PCI-Express x16 for Radeon RX 6500 XT / Navi 24. It really is x4

[windwhirl]

Yeah right, that's clickbait but doing reviews on 20 different SKUs of the 2080ti or 1080ti as TPU and many others have is not.

It's clickbait when you're using numbers from one card to apply it to a completely different one that's not even on the same architecture.

Heck, I could even consider it false advertisement.

Oh, and if he's effectively passing off 6500 XT numbers as 5500 XT's, and if there's an effective NDA over the RX 6500 XT, that's also breach of NDA.

 

[Nihilus]

It's clickbait when you're using numbers from one card to apply it to a completely different one that's not even on the same architecture.

Heck, I could even consider it false advertisement.

Oh, and if he's effectively passing off 6500 XT numbers as 5500 XT's, and if there's an effective NDA over the RX 6500 XT, that's also breach of NDA.

So glad we have white knights like you to look out for our ultra low IQ PC afficianadoes.

Title: Will PCI-E x4 cripple the 6500xt

First 5 minutes in and before showing benchmarks:
(Paraphrasing) "I will caveat by saying the 6500xt will be using the newer RDNA 2 architecture while the 5500xt using the older RDNA. While this may alleviate some of the bandwidth issues, I don't expect there be a big difference". (Hint-hint) And no one should as game cache alleviates vram bandwidth bottlenecks and not system memory bandwidth deficiencies.

Steve did not break any NDA. That's like saying you are breaking NDA by reducing clocks on a 2080 to get "simulated" 2070 Super performance. Your claims are so far fetched.

Anyone could have made this test in the last 2 years. Nobody did simply because no one would of imagined AMD doing something as cheap and scummy as this.

 

[KaitouX]

Also, reply that Steve gave to someone in the comments:

There's really no good way to spin it, the 6500 XT shouldn't be a desktop product. There are even more inexcusable shortcoming that you don't mention here which we will outline in our review.

For me it really reads like the same issue is present in the 6500 XT.

 

[Sabotaged_Enigma]

What truly hurts on Navi 24 is the lack of 4K encoding, otherwise it could be a good choice for entry-level cheap PC and primary productivity.
PCIe 4.0 x4, 4 GB 2250 MHz 64-bit GDDR6, 16 MB Infinity Cache, etc, these specs are all Navi 24 needs. I fully understand.
But why, why no support for 4K encoding???

 

[W1zzard]

Isn't this an AIB only launch - maybe they simply are expecting an AIB partner to send one to TPU. Did they specifically give you a "NO"?

The way AMD is doing these launches recently is that they collect the samples from AIBs, and then AMD distributes those cards.
For the previous two launches this made many AIBs unhappy because tons of their samples just disappeared or went to people they never heard of, while other AIB cards were sent to the high-profile reviewers.

 

[HD64G]

The way AMD is doing these launches recently is that they collect the samples from AIBs, and then AMD distributes those cards.
For the previous two launches this made many AIBs unhappy because tons of their samples just disappeared or went to people they never heard of, while other AIB cards were sent to the high-profile reviewers.

So, maybe this change of them not sending review samples is for all media and not for TPU only? Have you contacted AMD about this?

 

[Snoop05]

To get this thread back on topic, in fact same happens on Linux - i have manually set my bios to Gen3x8 for testing, and the usualy interfaces in /sys/class/drm/card0/device/ were reporting 16GT/s link speed (Gen4) and x16 width, but thankfully there are also files specific to AMDGPU (in that same path) that do actually show correct link speed and width.

 

[ego]

this is a marketing strategy by amd to push people to amd motherboards because intel does not have to many pci 4 boards