Re: RX6500XT review thread
*Hugs his 8GB RX 480, another year bud :D
Re: RX6500XT review thread
it seems nobody likes it..
what they been thinking with that pcie x4 and 64bit memory bus?
ehh...
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ChaosUK
it seems nobody likes it..
what they been thinking with that pcie x4 and 64bit memory bus?
ehh...
Not pushed to nearly 3GHz, this would make a great laptop chip and that's probably what it was designed for before * things happened.
Would also be fine as an eGPU via Thunderbolt which AFAIK is x4 max, but 1) even then 8GB is nice as you don't want to use Thunderbolt to push textures all the time and 2) AMD never did get their act together and add Thunderbolt to their laptops. Guess they are waiting for USB 4.
Re: RX6500XT review thread
laptop chip yes.. discrete card? NO..
it just seems like a cash grab to me
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Scalpers have bought them all, hopefully its a miss fire and nobody is willing to pay scalper prices.
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Lots on ebay for silly prices, but none sold so far.
One has 2 days left and is @ £225
Others are BiN starting @ £350
I really, really hope scalpers made a mistake on these.
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ChaosUK
it seems nobody likes it..
what they been thinking with that pcie x4 and 64bit memory bus?
ehh...
They were thinking they can make any old rubbish and still sell out.
Thus far, they were right.
Re: RX6500XT review thread
problem is some people don't read reviews... so they will still buy it..
and regret afterwards
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ChaosUK
problem is some people don't read reviews... so they will still buy it..
and regret afterwards
In the before times this would have been. what, and £100 card? At £80 I would say it was pretty good. It's the price that sucks.
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Rob_B
Lots on ebay for silly prices, but none sold so far.
One has 2 days left and is @ £225
Others are BiN starting @ £350
I really, really hope scalpers made a mistake on these.
Amen to that. I hope they all lose a lot of money. It will discourage them the next time there looks like a scalping opportunity.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
DanceswithUnix
In the before times this would have been. what, and £100 card? At £80 I would say it was pretty good. It's the price that sucks.
Agreed but still with the PCIex4 caveat. I understand why they did it but it really does cripple this card for any king of longevity. Either x8 or 8GB would have made this a much longer term card.
On a different note, those fixated on the 64 bit bus. It's irrelevant. You can't compare bus widths of cards with a sizable cache to cards without. If the GPU had 8GB on die and so a bus width of 0 bits would that make it rubbish?
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by
badass
Either x8 or 8GB would have made this a much longer term card.
That is very true. It also seems a lot of money for a card that isn't capable of decent VR (judging from running my Rift on an 8GB RX570 for some time).
OTOH, my machine at work has an RX550 in it. For a low end "5" class card this does have quite a bit more punch.
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Apex
*Hugs his 8GB RX 480, another year bud :D
Me too - Does your's overclock well? I have a Nitro+ and the autoOC in the radeon drivers gives me better than rx580 speeds which I think puts me roughly on parity to this card. Crazy when you think its 6 years old and was <£250. It means prices vs performance are basically the same. I remember when a mid range card could be beaten a card half its price in less than two years.
Re: RX6500XT review thread
The biggest slap on the face is that 6500xt is slower than 5500xt
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ChaosUK
The biggest slap on the face is that 6500xt is slower than 5500xt
AMD fans on forums are already starting to defend this release.
Re: RX6500XT review thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by
CAT-THE-FIFTH
AMD fans on forums are already starting to defend this release.
Fanboys gonna fanboy. Twas ever thus.