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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is equipped with 6nm Navi 24 GPU, launches January 19th​

AMD Radeon RX 6500XT is now set to launch on January 19th. What is important to note here is that its cut-down sibling, RX 6400 is not being introduced by AIB partners, but exclusively by OEMs.

Probably the most interesting information here is that both cards will use 6nm process technology. The source does not confirm which foundry is making Navi 24 GPUs but should be TSMC N6, same as Intel Arc Alchemist.

For its Navi 24 SKUs, AMD is introducing a new (marketing) specs metric, which is Memory Bandwidth with Infinity Cache. According to official specs, the RX 6500 XT has 232 GB/s and RX 6400 has 216 GB/s. Those figures without Infinity Cache would (probably) be 128 GB/s and 112 GB/s respectively. This also implies that RX 6500 XT has 16Gbps GDDR6 memory while RX 6400 comes with 14 Gbps modules.

In terms of power consumption, we are looking at 107W and 53W SKUs. The Navi 24XL based model is a single-slot and low-profile card that will not require an external power supply, the RX 6500XT, on the other hand, is dual-slot and will require a 6-pin power connector. Both cards are equipped with two display connectors: DisplayPort and HDMI.

VideoCardz	RX 6600 XT	RX 6600	RX 6500 XT	RX 6400
AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series
Picture
Architecture	7nm RDNA2	7nm RDNA2	6nm RDNA2	6nm RDNA2
GPU	Navi 23 XT	Navi 23 XL	Navi 24 XT	Navi 24 XL
Cores	2048	1792	1024	768
Infinity Cache	32 MB	32 MB	16 MB	16 MB
Ray Accelerators	32	28	16	12
Game Clock	2359 MHz	2044 MHz	TBC	TBC
Boost Clock	2589 MHz	2491 MHz	TBC	TBC
Memory Clock	16 Gbps	14 Gbps	16 Gbps	14 Gbps
Memory	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	4 GB GDDR6	4 GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	128-bit	128-bit	64-bit	64-bit
Bandwidth	256 GB/s	224 GB/s	128 GB/s	112 GB/s
TBP	160W	132W	107W	53W
MSRP	379 USD	329 USD	TBC	OEM
Launch Date	August 2021	October 2021	January 2022	March 2022

Source: https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-6500xt-and-rx-6400-to-be-the-first-6nm-graphics-cards

 

[Papacheeks]

needs to be under $300 to be honest these prices for low end entry cards needs to be adjusted.

 

[The Cockatrice]

I honestly stopped giving a shit about any new hardware. Until stocks/chips industry are back to normal, prices as well, getting excited for this sort of thing has become obsolete.

 

[Imtjnotu]

Yall think it'd worth it going from a 5800xt to a 6600xt?

 

[kyliethicc]

Yall think it'd worth it going from a 5800xt to a 6600xt?

You mean a 5700 XT?

And if that's a yes... then .. no.

Same performance. Not an upgrade at all. Would be a waste of money.

 

[Black_Stride]

A 4GB 6500XT will perform like what a 5600XT or worse?
Those ray accelerators......just throw them away you aint getting any performance from them.

The 6400?
What?

 

[RoboFu]

There is a huge market right now for “ a bit better” than intergrated that this would fill nicely for tasks like MS teams.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Kenpachii]

Trash cards won't even bother.

Anything below 1080ti 2070 at this stage is just a joke.

 

[Silver Wattle]

64 bit bus? 16MB IC? Combining IC bandwidth with GDDR6 bandwidth? 4GB ram?

 

[Xyphie]

Don't be surprised when you see the 5500XT actually beating the 6500XT in some things. Crazy that after 6 years the RX 480/GTX 1060-tier has basically not moved anywhere in terms of power, price or performance.