AMD announced its cheap graphics card RX 6500 XT at CES earlier this month, with promises that they would make it unappealing to crypto miners. But those limitations have meant that it's not as good for gaming as they'd hoped, even taking the limitations into account.
The analyzes of the portals Tom's Hardware, PCGamer, TechSpot and Gamers Nexus among others, affirm that the RX 6500 XT it is frequently outperformed by previous generation graphics cards. And it's not just performance that makes this card pale.
RDX 6500 XT is not convincing enough according to the first reviews
Its biggest problem would be the 64-bit memory interface, which is limited by the fact that it only has 4 GB of RAM, which is starting to be a limiting factor in modern games, especially at resolutions higher than 1080p. In several tests it has been seen that the RX 6500 XT it's been outclassed by the 8GB variant of the RX 5500 XT, a 2019 card that can be purchased for around $200.
La RX 6500 XT It doesn't take Raytracing well so settings in games have to be low enough, and thus games don't look much better. It is true that in this aspect, AMD graphics are not sufficiently prepared for this, but even so, it has disappointed.
The card's four-lane PCI Express 4.0 interface is also a problem, since on a motherboard with PCIe 3.0, its performance was reduced by 10 to 15 percent. It has already received criticism for this, as the RX 6500 XT is sold as a gaming card for laggard gamers with somewhat dated devices that are most likely still using PCie 3.0. It only has two connection ports, it cannot decode AV1 video streams that are used by more and more 4-way streaming systems, along with H.264 and H.265 video.
Part of this explanation is that the RX 6500 XT has been designed for notebooks, which require less VRAM and are often supported by the CPU's integrated graphics. exceeds the GeForce GTX 1650 from Nvidia at times, but this graphics card was already highly criticized at the time for not being up to the increasingly demanding games and only offering lower power consumption for that range of performance.
Source: ArsTechnica
