Competition is still good, and Intel’s announcement that it wants to cover the market for gaming graphics cards below $ 300 recommended retail price has led NVIDIA and AMD to develop new GPUs for this market. In the case of the green brand we know that the RTX 3050 (Ti) desktop based on the GA107 chip could appear in a few weeks, but what about AMD?
It would be the AMD RX 6500 GPU
The information comes from the YouTube hardware channel Moore’s Law is Dead, so this is nothing more than a rumor and therefore not an official confirmation from AMD, although it may well be a controlled leak. In addition, we had already had references from the Navi GPU 24, which will be the one equivalent to the AMD RX 6500 series of graphics cards, of which according to information there are two variants and at least one of them with a price below 200 dollars.
Your specifications? For starters, it would have full support for the RDNA 2 architecture, including Ray Tracing, and contrary to what has been said in previous rumors where it was said that the Infinity Cache would not be there, in the end the GPU Navi 24 in the RX 6500 will have 16 MB of Infinity Cache. Regarding the amount of Calculation units we are talking about 16 In total, so in both specifications it is only half that of the RX 6600 XT, we do not know if the memory bus is too, which would place it in 64-bit GDDR6 and therefore in capacities of 4 GB of VRAM.
Regarding its clock speeds, the RX 6500 graphics card should be high as with the rest of the range. Another thing that has also changed compared to the information leaked a few months ago is consumption, which could be between the 100 and 110 W Instead of being less than 75 W. Navi 24 will be a GPU that will be launched on both desktops and laptops, so we can expect different variations depending on consumption.
Its launch is scheduled for 2022
The appearance of the AMD RX 6500 graphics cards with the Navi 24 GPU would be expected for the beginning of next year, so they will miss the Christmas campaign, and is that according to the roadmaps of the three big companies, the The goal of Going for the low-income users of the PC gaming market is a coincidence, although we do believe that the launch plans for both AMD’s Navi 24 and GA107 on the desktop are a response to the plans. from Intel with its Alchemist GPUs.
At the moment, the under $ 300 GPU line-up does not yet have a GPU that supports DX12 Ultimate and after more than two years the NVIDIA GTX 16 and AMD RX 500 still reign supreme in this price segment. The new graphics cards will be a breath of fresh air for a neglected sector of PC gamers in recent years, in part due to the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series.
