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It would if it were a low profile card.
5600g -> 24 PCIex 3.0 lanes
4 for M2 NVMe
4 for chipset communication
16 for discrete GPU
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or 1660 Super used on ebay
$100 would be a good price for rx6500
5600g -> 24 PCIex 3.0 lanes
4 for M2 NVMe
4 for chipset communication
16 for discrete GPU
First, your 5600G doesn't support PCIe 4.0, so it's running with PCIe 3.0 instead.
Then it gets limited to just 4 lanes, 1/4 of what the graphics slot is capable of.
So you end up with a PCIe 3.0 x 4 connection to the graphics card.
Cards with 8 GB can mitigate performance problems encountered by the lower bandwidth somewhat, but the 6500 XT only has 4 GB (there is an 8 GB version of the 6500 XT but it's pretty much irrelevant and I haven't looked at the benchmarks for it).
https://www.techspot.co
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Sometimes the performance hit is minimal, sometimes you lose 50% of your FPS. Doom Eternal [techspot.com] is one such example.
There are multiple reasons people hate this card: the low 4 GB VRAM, only 4x PCIe lanes, and worse decode/encode support than other RX 6000 GPUs. Going up to the RX 6600 doubles the VRAM, doubles the Infinity Cache (32 MB), doubles the PCIe lanes to 8x PCIe 4.0 (3.0 in your case), and restores AV1 decode and H.264/H.265 encode.
First, your 5600G doesn't support PCIe 4.0, so it's running with PCIe 3.0 instead.
Then it gets limited to just 4 lanes, 1/4 of what the graphics slot is capable of.
So you end up with a PCIe 3.0 x 4 connection to the graphics card.
Cards with 8 GB can mitigate performance problems encountered by the lower bandwidth somewhat, but the 6500 XT only has 4 GB (there is an 8 GB version of the 6500 XT but it's pretty much irrelevant and I haven't looked at the benchmarks for it).
https://www.techspot.com/review/2...n-6500-xt/ [techspot.com]
https://static.techspot.com/artic...verage.png [techspot.com]
https://www.tomshardware.com/news...en4-tested [tomshardware.com]
Sometimes the performance hit is minimal, sometimes you lose 50% of your FPS. Doom Eternal [techspot.com] is one such example.
There are multiple reasons people hate this card: the low 4 GB VRAM, only 4x PCIe lanes, and worse decode/encode support than other RX 6000 GPUs. Going up to the RX 6600 doubles the VRAM, doubles the Infinity Cache (32 MB), doubles the PCIe lanes to 8x PCIe 4.0 (3.0 in your case), and restores AV1 decode and H.264/H.265 encode.