Almost a year after the initial rumors of the 2GB AMD Radeon RX 6300 surfaced, the company has finally released the GPU. The card may be a really bad performer due to its limited PCIe bus.
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AMD could be launching the Radeon RX 6300 for low-budget gamers soon. Alongside that, there could be more capable options from Nvidia as well in the form of 4070 Ti, 3080 Ti 20GB, and more.
Sapphire, an AMD-exclusive AIB partner, has launched a new 8 GB variant of the Radeon RX 6500 XT. This essentially makes the new Pulse RX 6500 XT 8 GB a much better recommendation than the 4 GB one.
The GTX 1630 could be Nvidia's newest offering in terms of an entry-level graphics card for the masses and will take on AMD's RX 6400 and RX 6300. However, the GPU is based on a three-year old tech.
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AMD may be developing a 2GB desktop card in the form of the Radeon RX 6300 based on the company's Navi 24 chip. If true, the card may potentially be even worse as a product than the 6500 XT itself.
ASRock has registered a few AMD Radeon GPUs including an upcoming RX 6400 ITX Challenger edition on the European Economic Commission's (EEC) website. The Radeon RX 6400 is an OEM-exclusive card.
AMD's $199 RX 6500 XT lacks some key hardware features like sufficient PCIe width and media support. In this article, I discuss why the cut-down RX 6400 would have been a better DIY release instead.
TechPowerUp, the GPU-Z GPU utility toolmaker, has put out a PSA explaining that the software's current versions are misidentifying the Radeon RX 6500 XT's PCIe width as x16 instead of x4.
AMD's new Navi 23-based budget cards, the Radeon RX 6500 XT and the RX 6400 are limited to just four channels of PCIe bandwidth. The cards also lack AV1 decoding and H.265/ HEVC encoding support.
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AMD's Alex Deucher introduced patches yesterday for adding initial support for a new Radeon GPU. Codenamed "Beige Goby", the new GPU could be the Navi 24 which is reportedly coming to laptops.
