Alive on Arrival? 3 changes that could've saved the ill-fated RX 6500 XT

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It's no secret that the littlest GPU out of AMD's RDNA 2 generation wasn't too warmly received. In fact, it was almost universally lambasted for being overpriced and underperforming, even in a time of shortages. But what if it didn't have to be that way?

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[Anonymousgg]

I agree on 75W and I want to see more models targeting that. You get it down there and remove the power connectors, and it will work in just about any OEM PC you buy off ebay. But you are leaving performance on the table, so maybe AIBs should be able to choose to use more. Make it optional based on if you plugged in an 8-pin.

The effects of 8 GB are obvious, we see it with the 6500 XT 8 GB models that already exist.

PCIe 4.0 x4 (often throttled to PCIe 3.0 for the target buyers) was very unfortunate. The RTX 3050 6 GB is a 70W card with PCIe 4.0 x8 and the full video decode/encode support, a good example of what to do (only the MSRP/current pricing is wrong).