At CES 2022, AMD unveiled the RX6500 XT, with the goal of making inexpensive gaming graphics available to gamers. Based on the Navi24 core, the RX6500 XT features 1024 stream processors and a light-chasing unit, 16MB of unlimited cache, and game acceleration up to 2.6GHz. But this graphics card only has 4GB of video memory, and the bit width is only 64bit, which is half the 8GB of video memory/128bit bit width of mainstream graphics cards, making everyone feel that this is a step backwards.
Frank Azor, AMD's chief game architect, explained that they did it on purpose. 4GB of video memory combined with AMD's FSR and RSR technology is enough to cope with most AAA games, but it is not ideal for mining. AMD believes that by limiting the mining performance of graphics cards, miners will not come to buy RX6500 XT graphics cards, and real players can more easily buy RX6500 XT graphics cards. According to the plan, AMD will still launch an RX6500 XT graphics card with 8GB of video memory in the future.
Hopefully, AMD's approach will be successful, and its specifications on the RX6500 XT are streamlined, which can be described as a subtle knife technique. Maybe castration and bit width can really make miners suffer, which is more sincere than Nvidia? The RX6500 XT graphics card is priced at $199 and the Bank of China is priced at 1599 yuan, and it will go on sale on January 19. But this graphics card has not yet been sold, The European e-commerce company will raise its price to 299 euros, the domestic market is afraid that the price will also rise, players want to buy this graphics card at a price of less than 2000 yuan is estimated to be difficult.