AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Linux Performance

[birdie]

Are there numbers on the 6500XT's power consumption? That could have been the only interesting metric...

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-6500-xt-pulse/35.html

[coder]

Its a terrible card, in every regard.

I disagree. I think the only thing really wrong with it is its name. They should've called the RX 6400XT. That's also fitting because the OEM-only RX 6400 uses a lower-spec version of the same die.

[coder]

GT 1030 2GB $115
RX 560 4GB for $200
RX 550 4GB for $230
RX 6500XT 4GB for $260
GTX 1650 4GB for $290
GTX 1660 Super 6GB for $330
GTX 2060 6GB for $440
RX 6600 8GB for $470

Given those options, I'd say the 6600 or 1660 Super are clearly the best options, if you can spend that much money.

If you're limited to only looking at the 4GB cards, the 6500XT isn't bad at $70 cheaper than the 1660 Super.

Did you see where it soundly beat GTX 1650? With both being 4 GB cards, I fail to see how you can recommend it or any of the other Radeon cards in your list.

[ResponseWriter]

Maybe I got my 290 at a good time because it cost me around £200 and wasn't replaced it until 2021. The 6500 XT looks like barely an improvement on what that card was.

I'd say the 6500 XT is capable enough for many games at 1080p, even 1440p at 60Hz but with only 4GB is not very future-proof. Without AV1 decode it's not even a good long-term option for HTPC at this point. If it's got any extra silicon for RT that's the real waste, IMO.

[coder]

Obviously: In order to service N gamers, cloud gaming services need to purchase a much lower number of GPUs than what the N individual gamers combined would need to purchase.

There's of course the peak-demand problem. The majority of game streaming customers will likely be online Friday and Saturday evenings. Because of that, their savings are as big as you might think. And you can't take advantage of different timezones to smooth out load, because latency.

[coder]

Yeah true, lets see what happens if Russia and other countrys ban crypto currency and mining. Not that I support it, but gamers may benefit.

Bans are hard to enforce, and really only deal with large-scale mining operations. A better option is to provide a progressive rate scale for electricity that makes it very expensive to use more than the typical household.

[coder]

If the RX 550 with roughly the same die size was sold for under 100€ i don't see how they are not making a big margin with a 7nm 100mm² die at tripple MSRP.

These are made on TSMC's 6 nm process node, and another point of consideration is that they use the latest, fastest GDDR6 speed.

Plus, even if AMD made more RX 550 dies, the wafers would be more expensive due to the massive supply/demand imbalance. You have to accept that AMD's costs have gone up, not just their margins.

[coder]

So if my RX 580 dies the 4 or 5 year newer card is a downgrade? Wow. Just Wow.

Yes, but you're also comparing an old mid-tier card with a new entry-level card. That their list prices are similar doesn't mean anything, any more.

[coder]

In other news Ars Technica has reviewed a fully open source (both software and hardware) ARM laptop:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022...tter-or-worse/

Michael

Not sure if anyone's interested.

WTF? So, it's basically a Pi v3 in a laptop chassis at a 35x markup? No thanks. I was expecting to see like a MediaTek-based chromebook with A76 cores, at least.

Not to mention that I haven't seen a laptop that chunky for like 30 years.

They also might've found about the only GPU IP worse than the Pi's!

[JPFSanders]

Why 4GiB? Why!? With 8GiB this would have had some worth.