Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6500 XT, 4GB GDDR6, HDMI, DP

Budget Navi Grafikkarte! Nach und nach erweitert AMD sein Navi-Line-up und bedient auch die Kunden mit dem kleineren Geldbeutel, wenn es um aktuelle RDNA2-Grafikkarten geht. Mit der AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT gibt es eine sparsame 1080p-Gaming-Grafikkarte. Mit deutlichen Einschränkungen bei den technischen Daten hat AMD aber den Rotstift deutlich angesetzt. Wir schauen uns genauer an, was dennoch an Leistung erwartet werden kann.

AMD has launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT yesterday, which was announced at CES just a few days ago. The RX 6500 XT is the world's first graphics card using a 6 nanometer GPU. While going from 7 nm to 6 nm doesn't sound like much, it brings with it improvements to power efficiency and allows higher operating frequencies, and an 18% transistor density gain. Starting production with a new silicon node is always a challenging task, and initial defect rates are high. That's why it makes perfect sense for AMD to release entry-level designs first, as these use a physically small silicon die. The bigger a chip, the higher the chance that a defect makes it onto that one chip. If producing multiple smaller dies, you'd just throw away the one affected die and keep the rest. That's also part of the reason why everyone is so excited about the chiplet approach that brought tremendous success to AMD'S Ryzen processor line.