Jason Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 AMD says RX 6500 XT is “optimized” to be good for gaming and bad for mining ARSTECHNICA.COM Ongoing mining craze is actually affecting how some products are designed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I doubt they did it on purpose to hurt mining. I heard that since AMD cards rely more on their cache the memory buses are smaller which hurts mining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 But how good for gaming will it be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 15 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: But how good for gaming will it be? It probably won't be particularly good for that either 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: It probably won't be particularly good for that either Ya I am hearing a radeon 580 for 200 dollars in 2021. I believe the 580 itself was 200 at the time. Guess that is one way to move customers up the SKU tier. Why spend 200 dollars when you can spend 1000+ and get a 3080 or 6800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardAct Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Still neither nvidia or amd can add a pre-order add to cart on there "gaming cards" to help gamers get them, hinder the bots and scalping. That would be on purpose and easy to do, but nothing! Off topic, but it really blows me away that still Sony or Microsoft haven't implemented and add to cart with a time line for us that are still wanting these consoles, one per email address, or something. I can't figure out why they don't either. I know sony has a raffle or something, I'm in that but theres no time or reason to how you get selected really. Am I missing something? Is it to hard to announce from Nvidia or AMD that they are now selling there own cards, add to card put 50 bucks down and first come first serve and have a tracking system showing where you are in line with an estimated time line? I wouldn't care if I saw I was 132,165ft in line for a 3080, 6800Xt, or a Ps5 one per email and credit/debit card system maybe with a registered ps network ID too? AT least I know they want my business, and they don't have to watch scalpers bots make money. They have to want these consoles in our hands the gamers right? Sorry, this really baffles me, Sony, Microsoft, AMD, and Nvidia it really is a head scratcher.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 8, 2022 Author Share Posted January 8, 2022 9 hours ago, BlueAngel said: Slower than a 580, with no encoding capabilities so its garbage. On top of that, it's limited to PCIe 4 x4, or PCIe 3 x4, a massive fail in every regard. It's a $200 card. Maybe the higher tier versions of this will actually be obtainable at MSRP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cusideabelincoln Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Everyone should avoid this card. It's bad. -performs 30% slower on pcie 3.0 -no video encoding or decoding -its pcie 4.0 performance is barely better, usually worse, than older cards that released at this price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 On 1/22/2022 at 1:34 PM, Dimden said: At this point, just buy a Ryzen 7 5700G and call it a day until you can put away enough money (and beat the bots) for a proper GPU. I hate to say it but I think prebuilds are the way. I think I should just accept I am gonna have to buy a Radeon 7800XT from a scalper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imthesoldier Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 9 minutes ago, Zaku3 said: I hate to say it but I think prebuilds are the way. I think I should just accept I am gonna have to buy a Radeon 7800XT from a scalper. Are you from the future?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 20 hours ago, imthesoldier said: Are you from the future?! No just thinking about RDNA3 goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imthesoldier Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, Zaku3 said: No just thinking about RDNA3 goodness. It reminds me of my old GeForce 7800 GS I had in my previous rig (which I upgraded from a Radeon X850XT). I remember playing the demo of Crysis at like 20fps with my Pentium 4. Those were the glory days before multi-core... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 In other news, it's also bad at gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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