AMD has just launched the budget-friendly Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card, and to say that the general response was lukewarm might still be an overstatement. Early reviews and benchmarks have poured in and most people are not impressed by the Navi 24 GPU.
To be clear, AMD hasn’t made an official statement as to why the card is not performing as well as you’d expect from a GPU released in 2022. However, John Bridgman, principal member of technical staff at AMD, made a statement that could explain the card’s lackluster performance. First noticed by VideoCardz, Bridgman posted it on Phoronix forums as a reply to someone who remarked on the poor media capabilities of the RX 6500 XT.
The original poster wasn’t wrong: The card doesn’t seem to have much to offer, be it for creatives or for gamers. It lacks encoding support as well as AV1 decoding, which is enough to put off content creators, and its other specifications are not very attractive to gamers either. Bridgman’s post may not be an official statement from AMD, but it does serve as an explanation why a card with such specifications was released in the first place. Tom’s Hardware has shared some of the reasons that AMD has talked about in the past, citing the fact that the company wanted to make the RX 6500 XT unattractive to cryptocurrency miners — which is why its specifications were cut down.
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