According to Neowin, Radeon RX 6500 XT is a low-cost graphics card that AMD recently introduced, but the product has not been well received by users due to many accompanying limitations, including the lack of current media decoding. (AV1) and encoder (such as HEVC). Not stopping there, it is only limited to 4 PCIe lanes, or PCIe x4.
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Radeon RX 6500 XT is a low-cost graphics card recently announced by AMD |
However, TechPowerUp’s current GPU-Z tool recognizes the Radeon RX 6500 XT as using x16 PCIe lanes instead of the actual x4. In explaining this confusion, TechPowerUp said that GPU-Z is still unknown about how Navi 24 – the GPU inside the Radeon RX 6500 XT works. While the graphics core itself can support x16 lanes, the PCIe switch only accepts x4 lanes from the Navi 24 of the RX 6500 XT as well as the RX 6400. The company says a future GPU-Z update will troubleshoot.
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TechPowerUp’s website also currently lists the card as a PCIe x8 card, but this will also change because of the specifications listed on the website before the card is introduced. Basically, it’s just the initial prediction parameters.
Reportedly, due to the influence of the number of PCIe lanes, analysis data from TechSpot shows that the new RX 6500 XT can be severely affected in games that require large VRAM, both in terms of average as well as fps. minimal when working on PCIe 3.0 and older boards.
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