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Key specifications of the AMD Radeon RX 6000M Series and Radeon RX 6000S Series mobile graphics can be found here. AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition The fact is, you can't compromise on both VRAM capacity and PCIe bandwidth. To a degree you can get away with handicapping one or the other, but doing both is disastrous for performance. It also creates a situation where the 6500 XT is overly sensitive to exceeding the VRAM buffer, even by a little bit, whereas products such as the GTX 1650 Super have a lot more leeway. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a game that ran terribly using PCIe 3.0 relative to what we saw with 4.0, though I was using the highest quality preset. This saw 4.0 deliver 38% greater performance and that margin was heavily reduced to 18% with the high preset, then 9% with medium and then 6% with low. Still, the issue is that the game looks and runs great using the highest and high quality presets with PCIe 4.0, so dropping so much performance when using PCIe 3.0 simply isn't acceptable. Who Is It For?
Takahashi, Dean (May 31, 2021). "AMD launches Radeon RX 6000M GPUs for gaming laptops". VentureBeat . Retrieved June 1, 2021. But this all seems to be part of an AMD strategy to put gamers first; by giving them graphics cards too weak to be worthwhile for mining and therefore more available to the rest of us. Metro Exodus couldn’t cope with the rays either, collapsing to 13fps after adding Ultra-quality RT effects to the general Ultra preset. Lowering the non-ray tracing settings to make up the difference will an option in any RT-supportive game, but then doing so makes the game uglier, defeating the point of enabling these effects in the first place.
Meanwhile, in many of the AAA tests we ran, the Radeon RX 6500 XT was only able to stay competitive with Nvidia's last true launch in this tier, the GeForce GTX 1650 Super. Whether in Red Dead Redemption 2 or Far Cry 5, we saw regular shootouts and win exchanges between those two GPUs. Most were photo-finishes, or close to it, regardless of the tested resolution. For desktop PCs, AMD announced the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6400 graphics cards, designed to make incredible 1080p gaming experiences for popular AAA and esports titles accessible to more gamers. Comparative Chipset Specs Table - AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, RX 6800 and RX 6750 XT AMD Advantage laptops are designed to deliver best-in-class gaming experiences, providing new levels of performance and responsiveness. They combine AMD Radeon RX 6000M Series or Radeon RX 6000S Series mobile graphics, AMD Software and AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series or Ryzen 6000 Series mobile processors with exclusive AMD smart technologies and other advanced system design characteristics. AMD Advantage will continue to expand in 2022 with new AMD Ryzen processors and AMD Radeon graphics and more than 20 new laptop designs. In addition, several enhancements and additions to the AMD smart technologies portfolio are designed to boost performance and extend battery life on AMD Advantage laptops, including: We've tested at 1080p and 1440p though most of our focus will be on 1080p results. Let's get into it... Benchmarks
The charts don't even tell the whole story, as we ran each benchmark multiple times. Not shown are the numerous results where a game would perform very poorly on some runs — this was particularly common with Far Cry 6, but we had some unusually low runs on Flight Simulator, Forza Horizon 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Watch Dogs Legion as well. The solution was usually to restart the game and hope things ran better, and we used these "better" results for our 1080p ultra charts. Basically, 4GB cards are absolutely the bare minimum for running many games acceptably these days. The Watch Dogs: Legion performance using the medium quality preset is rather underwhelming. We're looking at GTX 1650 Super-like performance making it a smidgen faster than the 5500 XT and RX 590. This time PCIe 3.0 only drops performance by 8% or 13% for the 1% lows, and while that's far less than what was seen in Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed Valhalla, I'd still consider this disastrous for an already struggling product. Hell it was even slower than the RX 570, what a disgraceful result for the new 6500 XT. And look, you can argue that using the ultra quality settings isn't realistic for a 4GB graphics card, but again the 1650 Super made out just fine, as did the RX 570. The 6500 XT is just a bad product with too many weaknesses to count. One area of potential interest is how the RX 6500 XT performs when it's not paired with the latest and greatest hardware. Now granted, we're not looking at an old and slow test bed, but we did run both the RX 6500 XT and the GTX 1650 Super through our new test suite on both our old (Core i9-9900K) and new (Core i9-12900K) test PCs. The results are... interesting.
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Next we have F1 2021 and boy does the 6500 XT stink in this one. I should note that we're using the high quality preset and no form of ray tracing is enabled. Our previous PCIe bandwidth testing also revealed the F1 2021 isn't particularly bandwidth sensitive, so I'm not sure why the 6500 XT performs so poorly. a b c d Goslin, Austen; Sarkar, Samit (October 28, 2020). "AMD announces Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs". Polygon . Retrieved January 22, 2021. btarunr (June 10, 2021). "AMD Navi 23 Silicon Detailed, Higher Transistor Count than RX 5700 XT". TechPowerUp . Retrieved April 12, 2022. On the port selection for the RTX 3050 model we tested, there's simply no comparison to the RX 6500 XT. The Radeon card is stripped down... Gigabyte Radeon RX 6500 XT Eagle 4G ports: Just two AMD SmartShift MAX Technology – Previously AMD SmartShift technology, the new and enhanced version is optimized for a broader range of games. By dynamically shifting laptop power between AMD Ryzen mobile processors and AMD Radeon graphics, SmartShift Max technology with an AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU and an AMD Ryzen 6900H CPU offers a 2X uplift in gaming performance on average across select titles compared to a system with an AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU and an AMD Ryzen 5900H CPU 9.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is available on select games and requires developer integration. See https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-software-fidelityfx-super-resolution for a list of supported games. AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is “game dependent” and is supported on the following AMD products: AMD Radeon™ RX 6000, RX 5000, RX 500, RX Vega Series graphics cards & all AMD Ryzen™ Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, as long as the minimum requirements of the game are met. AMD does not provide technical or warranty support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution enablement on other vendor's graphics cards. GD-187. On May 31, 2021, AMD announced the RX 6000M series of GPUs designed for laptops, [13] [14] including the RX 6600M, RX 6700M, and RX 6800M. They became available on June 1. [13] AMD Smart Access Graphics Technology – Delivers 15 percent more gaming performance on average across select titles 11 by allowing the AMD Radeon GPU to control the display directly vs. transferring information through the AMD Ryzen APU to the display. Forza Horizon 4’s built-in benchmark landed dead-on 60fps when running Ultra settings as well, and this only dropped to a playable 49fps at 1440p. Horizon Zero Dawn couldn’t quite make it to 60fps at 1080p/Ultimate, though its 54fps result came close. Engaging FSR, AMD’s upscaling tech, also pushed HZD’s 1440p/Ultimate average from 40fps up to 50fps. AMD Link requires Radeon™ Software version 22.1.2. Game streaming requires phone or tablet which supports Android 7.0 and greater or iOS 12 and greater, anywhere there is a high speed internet connection. For TV support, Apple TV 4th and 5th generation running tvOS 12.x and greater, or Android TV 7.0 and greater are required. Streaming at 4K requires 4K capable streaming hardware and is compatible with: AMD Radeon™ GCN-based discrete graphics and newer. Supports Windows 10/11. Link Game requires an internet connection. Controllers must be compatible with selected game and headset, please consult vendor for compatibility information GD-159To that end, while AMD hasn’t released the official transistor counts or a die size for Navi 24, expect it to be very small, especially compared to the sizable Navi chips AMD has put out thus far.
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