Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
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Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#2Good way to spin having only 4GB vram into an 'anti-mining feature' I guess.
Of course, 4GB is typically considered the bare minimum for modern 1080p (let alone higher) gaming and this is just a budget card which was definitely not limited with any mining considerations.
Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#3Good way to spin having only 4GB vram into an 'anti-mining feature' I guess. Of course, 4GB is typically considered the bare minimum for modern 1080p (let alone higher) gaming and this is just a budget card which was definitely not limited with any mining considerations.
The fact that the entry-level card can run its clock 30% faster than the same line's top-end offering supports the story pretty solidly, IMO. Not supporting 8 GB of vram can't have given them enough breathing room to casually run the clock that fast, so this has to have been decided way up front.
Like the article says, it remains to be seen whether this will also make the card bad at gaming, but I think that AMD at least had a coherent plan here.
Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#4Key pull quote:
> there isn’t an 8GB version of the 6500 XT. The 6500 XT also uses a 64-bit memory interface
It only comes with 4GB of RAM on a narrow bus which makes it useless for Ethereum mining. It doesn't seem like it uses the same "LHR" technique as Nvidia.
Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#5Good way to spin having only 4GB vram into an 'anti-mining feature' I guess. Of course, 4GB is typically considered the bare minimum for modern 1080p (let alone higher) gaming and this is just a budget card which was definitely not limited with any mining considerations.
The fact that the entry-level card can run its clock 30% faster than the same line's top-end offering supports the story pretty solidly, IMO. Not supporting 8 GB of vram can't have given them enough breathing room to casually run the clock that fast, so this has to have been decided way up front. Like the article says, it remains to be seen whether this will also make the card bad at gaming, but I think that AMD at l…
The RX 6500 XT is a worse card than the RX480 released 5 years ago https://i.redd.it/oyxyoxmch2a81.jpg .
Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#6Good way to spin having only 4GB vram into an 'anti-mining feature' I guess. Of course, 4GB is typically considered the bare minimum for modern 1080p (let alone higher) gaming and this is just a budget card which was definitely not limited with any mining considerations.
My 1060 3GB can still run every game I throw at it (except Cyberpunk). MS Flight Sim runs great at high, for instance, especially after the performance update.
Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that the entry-level card can run its clock 30% faster than the same line's top-end offering supports the story pretty solidly, IMO. Not supporting 8 GB of vram can't have given them enough breathing room to casually run the clock that fast, so this has to have been decided way up front. Like the article says, it remains to be seen whether this will also make the card bad at gaming, but I think that AMD at l…
The RX 6500 XT is a worse card than the RX480 released 5 years ago https://i.redd.it/oyxyoxmch2a81.jpg .
This is kind of like Google and Youtube becoming worse because they have too many of the wrong kinds of users.
Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#8> We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.
Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#9Good way to spin having only 4GB vram into an 'anti-mining feature' I guess. Of course, 4GB is typically considered the bare minimum for modern 1080p (let alone higher) gaming and this is just a budget card which was definitely not limited with any mining considerations.
The fact that the entry-level card can run its clock 30% faster than the same line's top-end offering supports the story pretty solidly, IMO. Not supporting 8 GB of vram can't have given them enough breathing room to casually run the clock that fast, so this has to have been decided way up front. Like the article says, it remains to be seen whether this will also make the card bad at gaming, but I think that AMD at l…
Isn't it a power budget and heat dissipation thing? For example the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 GPUs have pretty similar architectures, but the PS5 has fewer compute units at a higher frequency. Surely Microsoft would have loved to clock theirs as high as Sony.
PS5: 10.28 Teraflops, 36 Compute Units running at 2.23GHz (variable frequency)
XSX: 12.11 Teraflops, 52 Compute Units running at 1.825GHz (fixed)
Re: Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says
#10AMD consumer cards are unusable for GPGPU. Utter garbage. It’s not just mining. I would not have bought them if it weren’t for their open source driver. I hope Intel Arc fares better.