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AMD, at CES 2022, launched one of its worst GPUs ever in the form of the RX 6500 XT. The card has several major limitations and Nvidia is looking to kill it off with its upcoming RTX 3050 6GB.
The AMD RX 6500 XT 4GB variant, which is a really good card for light and eSports gaming, is on sale at the moment for just $100. This is half the price of what the 6500 XT's official MSRP is.
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.
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.
Multiple AMD Radeon GPUs from the latest RDNA 2 generation, like the RX 6800, RX 6700 XT, RX 6600 XT, and more, are selling well under their MSRPs. We have made a compilation of the best deals.
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 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.
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.
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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