ASRock reveals the Radeon RX 6500 XT's Achilles' Heel

[WYP]

PCIe bandwidth could be a problem with AMD's latest GPU.



Read more about ASRock revealing the RX 6500 XT's use of a PCIe 4.0 x4 connector.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Why is the 6500 XT using a PCIe 4.0 x4 memory bus in the first place?

 

[NeverBackDown]

It's only a problem if it's wired only for x4. As dropping to Gen 3 would result in a still x4 connection.

If it's wired for x8 but limited by gen 4 to x4 in say firmware, then it could technically still run in gen 3 x8, which is more than enough... Just depends on the traces and what's active or not.