SeekerAMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Nvidia's RTX 3050 delivers good performance for its theoretical $249 starting price. Unfortunately, that also means there's not a snowball's chance in hell that it won't sell for radically inflated prices. It lands between the previous-gen RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Super, both of which currently sell for far more than Nvidia's asking price.
-- As reviewed by Tom's Hardware
Product details
- Chipset: Radeon RX 6500 XT
- Video Memory: 4GB GDDR6
- Memory Interface: 64-bit
- Output: DisplayPort x 1 (v1.4a) / HDMI 2.1 x 1
- Digital maximum resolution: 7680 x 4320
PROS
+ + Theoretically good price
+ + Much better than AMD RX 6500 XT
+ + Comes with plenty of VRAM
+ + Full PCIe 4.0 x16 connection
CONS
- Little chance it will sell for MSRP
- Slower than RTX 2060 and RX 5600 XT
- 8GB means it can mine crypto
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Expert reviews and ratings
By Tom's Hardware on January 19, 2022
The AMD RX 6500 XT has all the makings of a new budget GPU, including underwhelming performance. Unfortunately, the price only qualifies as "budget" in today's world of radically inflated GPU prices, and even then, it will likely sell for far more than its official $199 MSRP.
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By Tom's Hardware on January 26, 2022
Nvidia's RTX 3050 delivers good performance for its theoretical $249 starting price. Unfortunately, that also means there's not a snowball's chance in hell that it won't sell for radically inflated prices. It lands between the previous-gen RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Super, both of which currently sell for far more than Nvidia's asking price.
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By TechRadar on January 19, 2022
While the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT does deliver on what it’s looking to do, namely 1080p gaming at medium-high settings, it fails to improve performance over its last-generation counterpart, which makes this graphics card feel more like a stagnation than an actual new product.
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