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ASUS Dual AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition 4GB Video Card @Newegg $200
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Assasin's Creed is 61fps in PCIe 3.0 vs 67fps in PCIe 4.0
Shadow of Tomb Raider is 47fps in PCIe 3.0 vs 65fps in PCIe 4.0
R6 Siege is 86fps in PCIe 3.0 vs 117fps in PCIe 4.0
F1 2021 is 66fps in PCIe 3.0 vs 93 in PCIe 4.0
if anything, the shame here is that it is still so darn big.
While performance will be decent for most games, AMD made a couple baffling decisions with this. For one, it is only 4 lanes of PCIe gen 4. You can lose up to 20% performance when pairing with a pcie gen 3 cpu. Also this has 4GB of ram when amd was offering 8gb cards in this price range 6 years ago. While people are saying to stop repeating youtube reviewers who point out these two flaws, they are very significant and people should know.
That said, this market is unprecedented. Never before have "new" cards been marketed with a higher price than older, more powerful cards. Further, I don't remember a time when GPUs cost more than CPUs. The CPU has always been the most expensive component of a new build but not anymore, and my memory goes back several decades.
Even CPUs aren't progressing like they used to -- I'm still using a Ryzen 1700 because the performance advantage of the newer generations just isn't worth the cost. If I'm going to drop $300 on a new CPU (and it's even more with a new board and memory), I want minimum 2x the performance, not 30%.
I guess I just have unrealistic expectations these days.
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Outside of that, it's fairly solid for playing Minecraft dungeons 1440p over 100fps. Basically all my kid uses it for.
You're right though, if you need something right now and have very little coin it's decent. What's ironic is that the best budget build right now is an Alder Lake i3/H610 paired with this card.
https://youtu.be/KYp6pEDm4E8
https://youtu.be/ZFpuJqx9Qmw
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https://youtu.be/ZFpuJqx9Qmw
Yes it is faster than a GTX 660, BUT the RX 480 and RX 580 (4GB) perform on a similar level. Thanks to AMD only throwing 4 PCIe lanes on the card, it will actually be worse than those 6 year old cards if you don't have a brand new system with PCIe 4.0. Some new CPUs and systems sold today still only have PCIe 3.0!
You can get 4GB versions of those cards for <$200 on eBay. 8GB ones are gonna be <$300 thanks to miners.
Other advantages of older cards include: more than 2 display outputs on your GPU. Also, if you plan on recording or streaming any games with that GPU, there is no built-in encoding on the 6500XT.
AMD made a really bad call by only giving the card 4x PCIe lanes. Most people buying cheap cards like this are upgrading old systems - and the lack of PCIe lanes makes it only viable if you are planning on building a new system with PCIe 4.0, and using this as a stop-gap solution as prices decline over the next few months.
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That said, this market is unprecedented. Never before have "new" cards been marketed with a higher price than older, more powerful cards. Further, I don't remember a time when GPUs cost more than CPUs. The CPU has always been the most expensive component of a new build but not anymore, and my memory goes back several decades.
Even CPUs aren't progressing like they used to -- I'm still using a Ryzen 1700 because the performance advantage of the newer generations just isn't worth the cost. If I'm going to drop $300 on a new CPU (and it's even more with a new board and memory), I want minimum 2x the performance, not 30%.
I guess I just have unrealistic expectations these days.