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AMD Removes '4GB VRAM is not enough for games' Marketing Hours Before Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB Launch

AMD has removed its marketing blog saying that 4 GB VRAM was not enough for games a mere hours before the Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB launch.

wccftech.com

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Barakov]

 

[Hellmaker]

Of course they did...

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

What a disaster of a GPU.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Never buy AMD GPUs.

 

[Wooxsvan]

 

[Buggy Loop]

Another fine AyyMD moment.

 

[lukilladog]

Worst ripoff since the gt 1030 ddr4?. AMD and Nvidia have reached new levels of Pathetic.

 

[ethomaz]

Man… what a ride lol

 

[Boglin]

Never buy AMD GPUs.

Somebody needs to bite the bullet so Nvidia doesn't have a monopoly. That somebody isn't going to me though

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

 

[newtypepilot]

 

[kyliethicc]

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

AMD right now

 

[StateofMajora]

lol. That card is the biggest pos since the gt 1030 ddr3.

Probably worse really since the xt is being sold as a premium card.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Wasted wafer in these hard times. Would've been better used for PS5 and Xbox consoles.

 

[TransTrender]

Yeah, the RX 6500 XT seems to be a shitty product with embarrassingly bad design decisions, also a marketing failure.

Who the fuck thought this was going to be OK?

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

Wasted wafer in these hard times. Would've been better used for PS5 and Xbox consoles.

Agreed. Wholeheartedly.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Somebody needs to bite the bullet so Nvidia doesn't have a monopoly. That somebody isn't going to me though

Maybe the monopoly is justified? Nobody else has stepped up in what 15 years...

 

[Boglin]

Maybe the monopoly is justified? Nobody else has stepped up in what 15 years...

Yeah, was just joking around. If we're looking at the current offerings then of course it would be justified and I'm not charitable enough to buy an inferior product just for the sake of competition.
If Nvidia truly does become a monopoly in the GPU space one day and starts leveraging it in anti-consumer ways then I'll let the regulating bodies deal with it

 

[Rickyiez]

Eww why ware we still looking at 64bit mem bandwidth in 2022

 

[Kamina]

Is this a bargain-bin GPU or something?

 

[Bulletbrain]

'Radeon RX 6500 XT is not enough for gaming'

 

[hlm666]

WTF is AMD doing. They lose dgpu market share with their most competitive high end parts in years and do this not long before Intel are to release their own cards. They have gotten high off their own farts from the praise their cpu success has gotten them. This gpu actually supports RT but it's so bad they should have disabled it at a driver level.

ASUS Radeon RX 6500 XT TUF Gaming Review - World's First 6 Nanometer GPU

The new AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT we review today is the world's first graphics card using a 6 nanometer GPU. With just 100 W during gaming, the RX 6500 XT is very gentle in its power requirements, but also held back by the 4 GB VRAM size and PCI-Express 4.0 x4 interface.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Kenpachii]

WTF is AMD doing. They lose dgpu market share with their most competitive high end parts in years and do this not long before Intel are to release their own cards. They have gotten high off their own farts from the praise their cpu success has gotten them. This gpu actually supports RT but it's so bad they should have disabled it at a driver level.

ASUS Radeon RX 6500 XT TUF Gaming Review - World's First 6 Nanometer GPU

The new AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT we review today is the world's first graphics card using a 6 nanometer GPU. With just 100 W during gaming, the RX 6500 XT is very gentle in its power requirements, but also held back by the 4 GB VRAM size and PCI-Express 4.0 x4 interface.

www.techpowerup.com

People cheer for AMD because its the underdog, sadly they don't realize AMD is just as shit as Nvidia on the consumer solution or even worse.

 

[01011001]

this card is such an absolute piece of shit lol... even at MSRP it is dogshit, but noone ever sold it at MSRP to begin with, even before scalpers come into view that thing went on store shelves for well over $300

 

[sinnergy]

Just general marketing.

 

[supernova8]

Can we have reviewers other than Hardware Unboxed and Gamers Jesus? Those people are just boring now. It's the same old depressed bollocks every time. Even when there are good products (not defending the 6500 shit-t) they aren't even that positive.

 

[hlm666]

People cheer for AMD because its the underdog, sadly they don't realize AMD is just as shit as Nvidia on the consumer solution or even worse.

I just want as many competing players in the pc hardware space as possible and it frustrates me AMD seems to think treating nvidia like it's intel and stuck on 5 year old chip node is going to work. Intels marketing department for the coming xe cards went home early today, AMD just gave them a product that just made those stupid out of context bar graphs not needed.

 

[hlm666]

Can we have reviewers other than Hardware Unboxed and Gamers Jesus? Those people are just boring now. It's the same old depressed bollocks every time. Even when there are good products (not defending the 6500 shit-t) they aren't even that positive.

my link above is to a site with a 40 page written review of the card, you have options other than those 2 outlets.

 

[Kenpachii]

I just want as many competing players in the pc hardware space as possible and it frustrates me AMD seems to think treating nvidia like it's intel and stuck on 5 year old chip node is going to work. Intels marketing department for the coming xe cards went home early today, AMD just gave them a product that just made those stupid out of context bar graphs not needed.

What did intel do? link pls

 

[01011001]

Can we have reviewers other than Hardware Unboxed and Gamers Jesus? Those people are just boring now. It's the same old depressed bollocks every time. Even when there are good products (not defending the 6500 shit-t) they aren't even that positive.

sounds to me like:
"give me reviewers with lower standards please"

 

[Zephir]

Off topic but...I can run far cry 6 at 59fps? I call it a win for my gloriously cheap 1650super xD

 

[Sosokrates]

It should give a bit better performance then a Series S.

 

[Sosokrates]

What did intel do? link pls

Holy smokes I was not expecting that?

Is is really memory bound?

Seems really odd for a last gen game.

I wonder how the 6500xt compares to a 5500xt 4gb

Because compute and bandwidth wise they are both very similar.

Edit:
Something seems up with that benchmark

 

[welshrat]

Wow what a crap card :-( I love my RX6800 and wouldn't swap it for any current Nvidia card but this is BAD.

 

[hlm666]

What did intel do? link pls

I was being sarcastic that Intel normally use questionable bar graphs in their marketing slides, but with AMD releasing this card Intel will just use this to compare their coming cards against and the bar graphs wont need to do shit like having a bar graph with one bar twice as long as the other but the axis doesn't actually show the whole bar.

Something seems up with that benchmark

Your benchmarks are at medium and the other are ultra. The 5500xt in the ultra benchmarks probably has 8gb vram and not hitting the vram capacity.

 

[Sosokrates]

I was being sarcastic that Intel normally use questionable bar graphs in their marketing slides, but with AMD releasing this card Intel will just use this to compare their coming cards against and the bar graphs wont need to do shit like having a bar graph with one bar twice as long as the other but the axis doesn't actually show the whole bar.


Your benchmarks are at medium and the other are ultra. The 5500xt in the ultra benchmarks probably has 8gb vram and not hitting the vram capacity.

It would of been a good idea to include some other 4gb cards to see if they have the same issue.

 

[Kenpachii]

Holy smokes I was not expecting that?

Is is really memory bound?

Seems really odd for a last gen game.

I wonder how the 6500xt compares to a 5500xt 4gb

Because compute and bandwidth wise they are both very similar.

Edit:
Something seems up with that benchmark

Medium settings for you, the one i posted was ultra settings.

U can read the entire benchmark here

https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/radeon_rx_6500_xt_review,16.html

ray tracing is particular funny on that card.

 

[VolticArchangel]

When your $200 GPU from 5 years ago (RX 580, hell, even an RX 480 from 6 years ago) completely destroys your current $200 offering, you know you fucked up.

Absolute fucking waste of sand. Imagine being that bad which makes another terribly priced card, RTX 3050, sound like a way better deal for $50 more at $250, when that in itself shouldn't cost more than $150 like it's predecessors.

 

[j0hnnix]

Shoot the 3060 6GB I have is pushing it, luckily i just got the laptop for ffxiv and oculus.

 

[Black_Stride]

Wasted wafer in these hard times. Would've been better used for PS5 and Xbox consoles.

This hit me harder than it should have.
That 6500XT space could have been used for basically anything else and it would have been of better use.

Heck they could literally have rereleased the 5600XT with more VRAM and that would make more sense than this piece of shit of a graphics card.

Who the fuck approved this?

 

[Bo_Hazem]

This hit me harder than it should have.
That 6500XT space could have been used for basically anything else and it would have been of better use.

Heck they could literally have rereleased the 5600XT with more VRAM and that would make more sense than this piece of shit of a graphics card.

Who the fuck approved this?

This also reminds me of Samsung laughing at Apple everything to follow them by next year. Lack of character and pride.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

I have a 3060 which as I understand it was supposed to be the budget GPU option. But of course cryptocurrency and COVID happened.

 

[STARSBarry]

I have a 3060 which as I understand it was supposed to be the budget GPU option. But of course cryptocurrency and COVID happened.

And incredibly good budget option for its price when compared to what ever this is....

Shame you can't get them for RRP, they sell for a 3080 RRP price now.

 

[lostinblue]

This hit me harder than it should have.
That 6500XT space could have been used for basically anything else and it would have been of better use.

The die is probably very similar to what would appear on a Ryzen integrated GPU with 16 CU's.

In fact, it's using the 6nm node like new Ryzen 6x00U/H cpu's and a low pcie-bus (typical on integrated graphics) which makes it a bit suspicious.

The RX 6400 with 12CU's is the same as the top range integrated product this year, so if they end up having a gpu chiplet separate from the cpu (I doubt it, but...), high chances 6500XT is the result of binning and the rest have either disabled CU's due to heat, or bad yields.

Anyway, it's a GPU that is only good enough for integrated graphics and whose bus tells it's heritage quite well.

 

[RoboFu]

Wasted wafer in these hard times. Would've been better used for PS5 and Xbox consoles.

More than likely these were some very last binned left overs laying around in a warehouse somewhere they thought they could make a quick buck on.

 

[MightySquirrel]

What did intel do? link pls

That's far worse then expected. When a lower tier card from 6 years ago outperforms it begs the question why even waste silicon?

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Where's my Radeon VII?