AMD changes 2020 blogpost claiming 4GB VRAM is ‘not enough for today’s games’
Recently, the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT was officially lifted. Unlike other Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards equipped with RDNA 2 architecture GPUs before, the Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 have caused huge controversy after they were released at the CES 2022 exhibition.
The Radeon RX 6500 XT is based on the Navi 24 core, manufactured with a 6nm process, equipped with 16MB of infinite cache, has 16 CUs, that is, 1024 stream processors, 4GB of GDDR6 video memory, the speed is 18 Gbps, and the video memory bit width is 64 bits. This graphics card has several controversial points, namely, the memory capacity is only 4GB, the PCIe 4.0 interface is only four channels, and it does not support 4K H.264/H.265 encoding and AV1 decoding.
The blog, written by Adit Bhutani, Product Marketing Specialist for Radeon and Gaming, also makes reference to ‘AMD… leading the industry at providing gamers with high VRAM graphics solutions across the entire product offering,’ which obviously doesn’t apply to the 4GB RX 6500 XT when the RTX 3050 will ship with 8GB VRAM, while it also points out that ‘gamers might expect several issues’ when playing with ‘insufficient levels of Graphics Memory, even at 1080p.’
After a period of disappearing, the article was finally put back by AMD. This means that AMD probably did not delete it directly, it should just be hidden.
In fact, before the launch of the Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400, the configuration and positioning of other products in the Radeon RX 6000 series were quite good, and the video memory configuration generally had an advantage over competitors’ products. This has also indirectly caused NVIDIA to update the GeForce RTX 20/30 series product line several times, increasing the memory capacity of the graphics card.
