One of the smallest in the range graphics cards Radeon RX 6000 sees its amount of video memory doubled. Insufficient ?
The question of the quantity of video memory integrated into graphics cards is at the heart of many controversies. AMD has regularly made fun of NVIDIA whose GeForces are said to be “under-equipped” at this level.
However, it is the Radeon RX 6500 XT that we are talking about today, because this entry-level card suffers from a double problem linked to its memory subsystem. A problem partially resolved by ASRock?
4 GB of GDDR6 on 64-bit bus
Launched in January 2022, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is clearly not a power monster. Its Navi 24 XT GPU is even the smallest of the RDNA 2 generation, with the exception of the Navi 24 XL of the 6400.
Thus, with its 1,024 stream processors, its 16 ray accelerators, its 16 calculation units, its 16 MB of Infinity cache and its frequency of 2,610 MHz, it is clearly behind most competing GPUs. However, numerous tests have pointed out a recurring problem more linked to the memory subsystem than to the GPU.
AMD actually made do with an anemic 64-bit interface bus which was associated with 4 GB of GDDR6. Too little for many observers and several manufacturers have already offered a solution.
Double the GDDR6, not the interface bus
ASRock has indeed just launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT 8 GB Phantom Gaming, a card which obviously does not change the memory interface bus, which therefore remains in 64-bit.
On the other hand, as its name clearly indicates, the new Phantom Gaming doubles the amount of GDDR6 memory associated with the Navi 24 XT GPU. To be completely honest, this is not really new since Sapphire has already marketed a Pulse model with 8 GB of video memory, but the arrival of ASRock could give a little more weight to these models.
Unfortunately, ASRock has not communicated the price of its future card and we also note that the brand has not increased the number of video ports: you have to make do with a single DisplayPort 1.4 and a single HDMI 2.1. It all feels very much like “too little, too late”, right?
Source : VideoCardz
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