Beware of the new AMD RX 6500 XT card: it has a laptop GPU and does not decode video

The graphics card crisis is leaving the reputation of manufacturers and assemblers in the dust. Especially when they try to take advantage of the dire market situation.

The cryptocurrency miners Y the speculators have appropriated the PC graphics card market, kicking out gamers, who can’t get graphics cards to play games, or just to build their PCs, unless pay double or triple for them.

Far from supporting its most loyal traditional customers, manufacturers and card assembly brands have done absolutely nothing to help gamers.

Blocking cards for cryptocurrencies has been a photo for the gallery that has been useless. Even worse, They take advantage of the desperation of the gamers to launch graphics cards with little power, or add minimal improvements to double the price.

NVIDIA angered gamers a few days ago by announcing the RTX 3080 with 12 GB of memory.

Its specifications are only between 3 and 8% higher than the RTX 3080 (Analysis), with 2 GB more RAM, but NVIDIA has not put PVP, giving wings to speculation, and It will be sold at twice the price of the RTX 3080, despite minor improvements: 1400 euros.

AMD has opted for another strategy with the recently launched RX 6500 XT. Have used underpowered hardware to evade cryptocurrency miners, but he has gone overboard with “low power“.

The benchmarks gave very low performance, incomprehensible on a 2021 card, even from the start. Until AMD itself has had to admit that it uses the Navi24 GPU, which was designed for laptops.

not only sell a desktop graphics card with a laptop chip, but it has also been found that does not include hardware video encoding and decoding, something that today even the integrated chips of the processors do.

To add insult to injury, it has been found what amd has been hiding a comment from two years ago where it said that “4 GB of memory is not enough to play“, because the RX 6500 XT has… 4 GB of VRAM.

It is true that it is not expensive, since it is worth 200 euros, but it does not make sense to give this card a new generation name, when there are cards from 6 or 7 years ago like the RX 570 and RX 580 with a similar power, which decode video, and can be obtained at a similar price.

Desperate gamers who haven’t been able to buy gaming cards for more than a year deserve more than these questionable practicesby manufacturers and assemblers.

They are breaking sales records, for there is something important at stake: the survival of the PC gaming market. More and more powerful games are released every day, but many players can no longer play them with their old cards, so they don’t buy them.

This affects the industry as a whole, creating a wave of frustration and anger that those in charge are doing nothing to alleviate.