Shortly following AMD’s CES 2022 product premiere, the place the corporate introduced the price range RX 6500 XT with an MSRP of $199, Asus introduced two of its personal RX 6500 XT fashions: the Twin Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Version and TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Version. These two playing cards provide Asus’ tackle the most affordable AMD RX 6000-series graphics card, however as we have since discovered, they’re something however low cost.
In line with a press launch, reported by hardwareluxx-de, the Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Version will sit at €334. The cheaper of the 2 is the Twin Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Version, which is able to go for €299.
Although an imperfect science, by in the present day’s EUR/USD trade price, this may work out to the equal of $377 and $338, respectively.
That is clearly removed from the value set by AMD throughout the firm’s CES 2022 stream, and would not spark confidence to this card’s lasting shelf worth on arrival. Here is hoping the precise USD worth is not fairly so steep.
It isn’t simply higher-than-expected third-party costs that we now have to deal with, in spite of everything. A scarcity of graphics playing cards, largely brought on by a semiconductor scarcity the world over, has precipitated skyrocketing costs for this treasured PC part. Whereas briefly provide, these GPUs are additionally in excessive demand, as a consequence of an absence of price range choices within the present AMD and Nvidia generations till now, with the arrival of the RX 6500 XT and RTX 3050.
AMD has talked about that it hopes to keep away from the tough waters of cryptocurrency mining by purposefully sustaining a less-than-ideal VRAM capability of simply 4GB GDDR6. How that may play out by way of availability is but to be seen, as the cardboard has not arrived in earnest but. Nonetheless, the RX 6600 XT was broadly obtainable shortly after its launch, so it is definitely a risk.
That stated, we weren’t completely blown away by the RX 6600 XT, and from the seems to be of the specs listing and relative efficiency of the RX 6500 XT it won’t appeal to us much either. We desperately need first rate price range graphics playing cards proper now, but when they are not marginally convincing in worth or efficiency it will be a tricky tablet to swallow.
Simply another reason why the semiconductor shortage completely sucks.
