Nvidia recently launched the GTX 1630 budget offering for around $150. In this guide we look at it and compare it with other similarly priced alternatives like the RX 6400, 6500 XT, 1650 and more.
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Plenty of AMD Radeon GPUs from the latest RDNA 2 generation, like RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT, 6700 XT, and 6600 XT, are selling at under their MSRP. We have made a compilation of the best deals.
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Intel launched its first Arc graphics card last week with the A380. Today, the card has been tested against its main competitors, the RX 6400 and 1650, where the A380 disappoints somewhat.
Intel has launched its Arc A380 graphics card in China, like the company had promised last month. The A380 is an entry level GPU and price-wise, it looks better than AMD and Nvidia's offerings.
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.
AMD's partners have launched the AMD RX 6400, a low-profile graphics card with an RDNA2 GPU that was meant for laptops. The new card is priced at $159.99 and could be ideal for SFF PCs.
Without much fanfare, AMD quietly launched a new budget graphics card. Radeon RX 6400 is already available in China and other countries with modest specs and low power consumption.
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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.
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AMD is rumored to be launching refreshed Navi 2X (RDNA 2) GPUs with faster 18Gbps GDDR6 memory. In total, three new GPUs are allegedly planned for release, the 6950 XT, the 6750 XT, and the 6650 XT.
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.
The new Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.1.2 driver release from AMD touts support for Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction as well as the newly releasing RX 6000 series cards like the 6500 XT.
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.
