Sadly, despite being a 6500 XT that's been gimped, AMD cut the clocks so far that it performs as well as the 6400 at worst to marginally better at best. If only it weren't locked down and you could bring up the clocks at little.
Well, decent card if you want to play PS4 ports on PC, and do not have large PSU. Optiplex conversion and all that . Having only 4 PCIe lanes is a bummer, but it would not hamper this card much, as it is slow already.
I do agree the pcie 4 lanes is a bummer, the card isn’t too horrible for a lower end pc though, i have been running it in a 4th gen optiplex for a few weeks now and it isn’t actually that bad. Thank you for your support!
@@BasementTech-YT Well, I guess everything depends on the size of the textures. If they are not too big, 4 PCie lanes will suffice. On the other hand, it is not powerful enough to use high textures in newer games anyway 😁
@@TheGameBench I have an RX6400 and I have seen a major difference if its on PCI-E 3 vs PCI-E 4 being on PCI-E gen 3 can cause stutters even on a powerful CPU like a i7 12700 so I am sure that those bad 1% lows would be ironed somewhat if on a PCI-E gen 4 capable CPU\Motherboard it won't be perfect but at least it won't be a complete stutterfest.
@@fredsorre6605 I have an RX 6400, 6500 and 6500 XT... and absolutely, the stutters are not due to the CPU. The CPU is what's causing the GPU utilization to be low due to IPC limitations. The stuttering is due to a bottleneck between the VRAM and system memory due to only having 4 PCIe lanes AND a 64-bit bus. And yes, it still has issues in a Gen4 slot, it's merely compounded by being in a Gen3 slot. Had they given it 6GB of VRAM, it would have been less of an issue regardless. However, it is not so much a bottleneck of the GPU itself. While I don't suggest using one in a Gen3 slot, if you can avoid the VRAM limit, you can mostly avoid the stuttering and you can see from the overlay that he had it maxed out.
Seems like for the most part it's a pretty stuttery and lackluster experience when gaming with that CPU. Hard to tell the real potential performance of the card with such a CPU bottlenecking the system so hard when playing more CPU-intensive programs. I'm still pretty new to the computer gaming scene but I find videos and content like this entertaining. Subbed.
@@potionseller357 Thanks for the feedback! I put the graphics card with an AMD Ryzen 5 1500, which only bottlenecks when i’m recording because recording is very cpu intensive, add around 10-20 fps to these, and those results will be pretty accurate.
What drivers did you use for the card in Windows? I also bought one of these from eBay with the same curiosity, but if I install AMD official drivers or Dell's drivers for it, the card disappears from Windows 11. I tried multiple Windows 11 installs, and a few different PCs. It works perfectly fine under Linux, but not Windows.
Not exactly, it is a Radeon RX 6500M, which is a laptop graphics card, the RX 6400 and 6500M are both based on the same chip, as well as the 6500 XT, but they all are different products. The 6500M is about 15% better than the RX 6400.
Sadly, despite being a 6500 XT that's been gimped, AMD cut the clocks so far that it performs as well as the 6400 at worst to marginally better at best. If only it weren't locked down and you could bring up the clocks at little.
Well, decent card if you want to play PS4 ports on PC, and do not have large PSU. Optiplex conversion and all that . Having only 4 PCIe lanes is a bummer, but it would not hamper this card much, as it is slow already.
I do agree the pcie 4 lanes is a bummer, the card isn’t too horrible for a lower end pc though, i have been running it in a 4th gen optiplex for a few weeks now and it isn’t actually that bad. Thank you for your support!
@@BasementTech-YT Well, I guess everything depends on the size of the textures. If they are not too big, 4 PCie lanes will suffice. On the other hand, it is not powerful enough to use high textures in newer games anyway 😁
@@aleksazunjic9672 It absolutely depends, it is a decent starter card but not good for much more than that
This card will perform better with a better CPU
This was heavily bottleneck by both the CPU and the lack of PCI-E Gen 4 given that it only has a X4 PCI-E pins on there.
The CPU, yes... the PCIe slot, not so much. That's more of an issue for the VRAM than the GPU itself.
@@TheGameBench I have an RX6400 and I have seen a major difference if its on PCI-E 3 vs PCI-E 4 being on PCI-E gen 3 can cause stutters even on a powerful CPU like a i7 12700 so I am sure that those bad 1% lows would be ironed somewhat if on a PCI-E gen 4 capable CPU\Motherboard it won't be perfect but at least it won't be a complete stutterfest.
@@fredsorre6605 I have an RX 6400, 6500 and 6500 XT... and absolutely, the stutters are not due to the CPU. The CPU is what's causing the GPU utilization to be low due to IPC limitations. The stuttering is due to a bottleneck between the VRAM and system memory due to only having 4 PCIe lanes AND a 64-bit bus. And yes, it still has issues in a Gen4 slot, it's merely compounded by being in a Gen3 slot. Had they given it 6GB of VRAM, it would have been less of an issue regardless. However, it is not so much a bottleneck of the GPU itself. While I don't suggest using one in a Gen3 slot, if you can avoid the VRAM limit, you can mostly avoid the stuttering and you can see from the overlay that he had it maxed out.
Not sure why this popped up in my feed. looks like x4 lanes
bro i noticed that too lol
Sorry, I don't really understand what you mean.
Yes, just like the RX 6400 and 6500 XT.
Seems like for the most part it's a pretty stuttery and lackluster experience when gaming with that CPU. Hard to tell the real potential performance of the card with such a CPU bottlenecking the system so hard when playing more CPU-intensive programs. I'm still pretty new to the computer gaming scene but I find videos and content like this entertaining. Subbed.
@@potionseller357 Thanks for the feedback! I put the graphics card with an AMD Ryzen 5 1500, which only bottlenecks when i’m recording because recording is very cpu intensive, add around 10-20 fps to these, and those results will be pretty accurate.
What drivers did you use for the card in Windows? I also bought one of these from eBay with the same curiosity, but if I install AMD official drivers or Dell's drivers for it, the card disappears from Windows 11. I tried multiple Windows 11 installs, and a few different PCs. It works perfectly fine under Linux, but not Windows.
I used the drivers from dell.com, i used them on windows 10 though, i am not sure why it doesn’t work on windows 11.
RDR2 -2 fps
So is it just a rebranded 6400?
Not exactly, it is a Radeon RX 6500M, which is a laptop graphics card, the RX 6400 and 6500M are both based on the same chip, as well as the 6500 XT, but they all are different products. The 6500M is about 15% better than the RX 6400.
@@BasementTech-YT Interesting, I have a 6400 in my sons Steam machine Opti and have never heard of this card. Good watch, learned something new.
uses like 4 pcie lanes
Yes, a lot of these low profile amd gpus do