AMD Removes ‘4GB VRAM Is Not Enough for Games’ Hours Before RX6500XT 4GB Launch

Re:AMD Removes ‘4GB VRAM Is Not Enough for Games’ Hours Befo... by rasz on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @06:59PM (#30002294)

I really like PCIE x4 making this GPU unsuitable as an upgrade for older computers. And the fact most manufacturers decided to slap 3 huge Fans on it to make it look like serious card.

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Re:AMD Removes ‘4GB VRAM Is Not Enough for Games’ Hours Befo... by fomine3 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:03AM (#30004885)

I don't know how much cost and parts (especially what in shortage) reduced by reducing PCIe lanes to x4, but it's acceptable if it's reasonable. Adding unnecessary cooling component definitely adds cost and parts, it's totally not reasonable.

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Re:AMD Removes ‘4GB VRAM Is Not Enough for Games’ Hours Befo... by Havoc on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:36PM (#30003144)

It is clocked high so lots of fans does make sense.

Just the bandwidth and ram that’s crap

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Re:AMD Removes ‘4GB VRAM Is Not Enough for Games’ Hours Befo... by rasz on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:59PM (#30003338)

Its 100W TDP, you know what else was 100W TDP? ATI Radeon HD 4850 from 14 years ago https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-4850.c493

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Re:AMD Removes ‘4GB VRAM Is Not Enough for Games’ Hours Befo... by PlanckMeasure80 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:36PM (#30013625)

My 6970 was so loud with its single, tiny fan, I never bought another AMD card.

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Re:AMD Removes ‘4GB VRAM Is Not Enough for Games’ Hours Befo... by rasz on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:58PM (#30015701)

One fan and 250W TDP is crazy. Even 170W GTX760 with same reference cooling was a hot loud mess. But here we are talking less power dissipation than 2007 GeForce 8800. Those even came in single slot thin fan configurations, with afaik not a single manufacturer going for more than two slot one fan.

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