RDNA2 / Big Navi

[M344587487]

So the 6500XT is out and it looks awful for most use cases:

• Only 64 bit memory bus
• Only 4 PCIe lanes, which limits gaming unless using PCIe 4.0 which most people aren't (especially not those looking for a low end card)
  
• Only 4GB RAM so it's (mostly) useless to miners
• 16 MiB infinity cache
• 1024 cores
• Borked media capabilities
  

Ironically if it's available for MSRP being so bad may be a win for us. They might not make many for desktops as the chip mostly seems intended for laptops (releasing for desktops might have been a misguided paper launch for good will, which is backfiring hilariously).

[Mark Rose]

Originally Posted by M344587487

So the 6500XT is out and it looks awful for most use cases:

• Only 64 bit memory bus
• Only 4 PCIe lanes, which limits gaming unless using PCIe 4.0 which most people aren't (especially not those looking for a low end card)
  
• Only 4GB RAM so it's (mostly) useless to miners
• 16 MiB infinity cache
• 1024 cores
• Borked media capabilities
  

Ironically if it's available for MSRP being so bad may be a win for us. They might not make many for desktops as the chip mostly seems intended for laptops (releasing for desktops might have been a misguided paper launch for good will, which is backfiring hilariously).

Kind of high wattage for the performance though. Cheap to buy, expensive to run.

[JCoveiro]

Hi all. I do also have a 6900XT.
Do you still need any benchmarks?

[JCoveiro]

Hi again.

I'm sending the 6900XT Benchmarks (from your file).

[JCoveiro]

6900XT

2022-01-27 21:21:02 gpuowl v6.11-380-g79ea0cc
2022-01-27 21:21:04 gfx1030-0 OpenCL compilation in 2.55 s
2022-01-27 21:21:07 gfx1030-0 77936867 OK      800   0.00%;  613 us/it; ETA 0d 13:17; 1579c241dc63eca6 (check 0.29s)
2022-01-27 21:23:11 gfx1030-0 77936867 OK   200000   0.26%;  623 us/it; ETA 0d 13:28; f0b04b45b0855bd2 (check 0.29s)
2022-01-27 21:25:17 gfx1030-0 77936867 OK   400000   0.51%;  627 us/it; ETA 0d 13:30; c03f94396a5aa29e (check 0.29s)
2022-01-27 21:27:23 gfx1030-0 77936867 OK   600000   0.77%;  628 us/it; ETA 0d 13:29; b9decd65ca71b629 (check 0.29s)
2022-01-27 21:29:28 gfx1030-0 77936867 OK   800000   1.03%;  628 us/it; ETA 0d 13:28; 21ebf3636148f663 (check 0.29s)
2022-01-27 21:31:34 gfx1030-0 77936867 OK  1000000   1.28%;  628 us/it; ETA 0d 13:26; 9bf9d9e6bff4286e (check 0.29s)