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I want to know opinion of people.
This GPU have only 4 (FOUR) pcie lanes physically.
You are the one that has understanding issues concerning PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0.
Like I said to google like I did and I found what I was looking for: https://www.trentonsystems.com/blog/pcie-gen4-vs-gen3-slots-speeds
PCIe 4.0 x 4 has the same bandwidth as PCIe 3.0 x 8 so if you have the GPU card install in a PCIe 3.0 x 4 slot it will have 50% less bandwidth which will greatly decrease your game playing.
Like I mentioned you don't understand what PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0 means.
Say. What will happen if your game used all of that 4 GB of memory and used PC RAM for caching?
With 4 lanes PCIE 3.0 you have only 4 GB/s bandwidth. For example we have DDR4 for cache all that foliage that can't fit into 4 GB VRAM.
Guess what? It will be limited by 4 GB/s PCIE 3.0 4x.
You will suffer even with 16x, but not that severe as with 4x lanes.
You can check how it playable rx580 vs rx6500 XT with 1440p resolution. Note that Benchmark is not FAIR because RX6500 XT using pcie 4.0 and we need to compare when it limited by pcie 3.0. Because we bought APU Ryzen 5700G for example
PS. No hardware encoding so no streaming because people will see your low end gameplay.
@rockym20 It is already scalped.
Scalpers bought it directly from dealers and now selling it for 400-600 usd.
Our local AMD distributor raised prices to 525-600 usd.
One of many funny feedback - "Guys, stop posting about how much trash it is for that price. I can't catch up to you to put like to your post"
@Ryan_SagareThank you for your reply. I personally wont buy this piece of hardware because it is downgrade in comparison to GPU's from 2016.
- You can't use it potential with all Desktop APU from AMD. This one may be usable if AMD's APU's will support PCIE 4.0 but they support only PCIE 3.0.
- If you use performance CPU's(without graphics core but with bigger L3 cache) then you don't have hardware encoder.
- You can't use it with Intel APU's before Rocket Lake for same reason as with ALL AMD's APU.
PS. miners already buying it for Toncoin(1.1 GH/s) and other crypto where you need high frequencies for GPU.
There sure is a lot of bad press surrounding this product. I got a chance to talk with Matt Hummel yesterday on Meet the Experts and gained some fantastic insight on the 6500XT.
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