Graphics cards are a rare commodity and in most cases far too expensive. With the RX 6500 XT, AMD introduced an affordable graphics card for under 200 euros.
Graphics cards and PS5 consoles are currently a rare commodity and are either hardly available or you have to pay thousands of euros on eBay for a graphics card.
Which graphics card is it about? AMD presented several new products at CES 2022. Among the products is the Radeon RX 6500 XT. It is officially the smallest graphics card in AMD’s RX 6000 series.
With a suggested retail price of 199 US dollars, it is also the cheapest graphics card AMD has announced so far. In Germany, the MSRP is likely to be a little over 200 euros including taxes.
But not only because of the price do many gamers pin their hopes on AMD’s new graphics card. The idea is to make the graphics card unattractive for miners with a small video memory.
Small Video Memory Should Protect Graphics Card from High Prices
Our colleagues at GameStar have already reported that AMD wants to protect the RX 6500 XT from extreme prices by equipping the graphics card with only 4 GB of video memory. This makes the graphics card quite unattractive for miners, as the VRAM is too limited. Nevertheless, many believe that 4 GB of video memory could be too little for gaming in 2022.
At best, this means for many gamers that at least the competition from the miner sector is eliminated. Nevertheless, there are more than enough reasons why you as a gamer currently have little chance of buying a graphics card.
What is exactly the problem? Now the online magazine PCGamer reported that manufacturer Asus has named the first prices for the RX 6500 XT (via PCGamer.com). And the prices are likely to disappoint many users:
- The Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is said to cost 334 € according to the manufacturer.
- The cheaper variant, the Dual Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition is expected to launch at a price of 299 euros.
The prices mentioned are manufacturer’s recommendations. We expect that the graphics cards at retailers like Amazon, MediaMarkt, or Alternate will likely be significantly more expensive and you will have to spend at least 400 euros for the graphics card.
And this price could disappoint many users. Because AMD introduced the RX 6500 XT as a successor model for the RX 570 and the GTX 1650. These are two popular and widely used graphics cards. Both graphics cards are already a bit older: the RX 570 was released in summer 2017, the GTX 1650 a little later in 2019.
However, AMD is not the only manufacturer that might have affordable graphics cards on offer. Other manufacturers also plan to offer inexpensive graphics cards from 2022, and they could bring some surprises. Among them is a manufacturer that hardly anyone in Germany is likely to know. Whether this could be a potential hidden gem is explained to you by MeinMMO in the following article:
Gamers are now hoping for an affordable graphics card – But it won’t come from AMD or Nvidia
