Sapphire AMD cards are always one of the best you can get out there

But the XFX looks soooooo cool m'an and yet it's hotter...

Could it be voltages?

Source?

@@Hk7762Tubenot the correct type of cool😂😂

yeah, but it runs about 15-20 degrees hotter.

@@TechOrigami because AMD clocked the balls of it

@@yahyasajid5113 Hmmm and the test bench in video is in the open. Put it in a small form factor case and see it melt.

The 1650 launched three years ago and on architecture from 2018 lol. This AMD card barely squeezes out a few extra frames

@@TechOrigami That's just because that particular Cooler model was already crappy. Other model of RX 6400 are doing just fine (The NOT Low Profile Ones) below 40 Celsius

@@cloudycolacorp yeah at the time when the 1650 launched i was looking for a new card, and decided on a used rx 580 over the 1650 lol. and the 580 was like £100 used in great condition so i was happy. 8gb model too!.

@@JudeTheKZfaqPoopersubscribe Right before the pandemic, you could buy them used for $50-80. I saw several 1650ti cards for around $100 new.

I got a 1660 super around launch for $230 so yeah thats ludicrous

@@RonnieMcNutt666 damn u are right. I just checked ebay. A lot of 1070 cards going for around £160 ($200). They are definitely going for cheaper right now which I'm thankful to see. Actually a little cheaper than what I bought my 1070 for in December 2019.

@@JudeTheKZfaqPoopersubscribe ye4a and new gpu coming out prices go down even more. 6600 i i am seeing for 260 which is incredible

Makes perfect sense since these are just repurposed as a desktop gpu. Thanks a lot for the info.

So? Its not a laptop card is it?

@@kidShibuya The chip designs were finalized several years ago, but then 2021 happened, and AMD was like "people want desktop GPUs, and we have these mobile chips piling up in our warehouse, let's see if we can make this work" but they can't just tack on an encoder or more PCIe lanes just because it's on a desktop card now.

@@kidShibuya it's a laptop die slapped on a desktop PCB

@@kidShibuya Yes. it is. They can't just magically put one back onto it because they decided to sell it as a desktop part now.

Well yes , it's 7nm vs 12nm litography :D

it's efficent but a stretch for sure since it can't even do video encoding which is quite important nowadays

@@samihyppia8472 6nm actually

@@Piipperi800 important for what. You can do encoding on cpu as well with igpu. How many people are actually creators in the first place? Don't make fake "importance". Most people will use this card for ps emulation

@@spookyskellyskeleton609 have you actually ever done anything else on a computer other than watch youtube and porn? certianly seems like you haven't, or you just haven't owned a computer in the recent years without hardware encoding.

yeah, gimped by design, just like the 6500xt. nah, not the new lp king definitely.

I mean, the real reason they made the card is for the enterprise sector via OEMs. selling them on their own is just a bonus.

I don't think that's true, it doesn't pack enough performance to be limited by even x4 pcie gen 3. It would have to be x2 or x1 which I really don't think they did. Lower pcie bandwidth does not mean performance impact across all gpus. The 6500xt runs Into issues with pcie only sometimes because it's at the edge of needing more bandwidth, also because the memory bus is so small.

@@SaveTheSunF1R3x i’m 99% sure the 6500XT is just a repurposed laptop GPU, which explains why it has only 4 lanes instead of the usual 8 or 16 for desktop GPU’s. the 6400 might be the same deal but idk

@@raycert07 The issue is when games need more RAM than its onboard vRAM, then you will start seeing differences as it's using the pcie bus to move texture data around constantly.

@@youtubeisgarbage900 not really, perfect for sff pcs, not just pre-builts.

@@raycert07 what is sff

@@diablotech385 small form factor, just like this prebuilt

@@wisdoom9153 oh

And even then is bad, slower than a 1650 unless you go Pcie4.

It sucks.I remember building my first PC around 2007 and looking at several pages worth of GPU’s all under 150$.I think I settled on a nvidia 8600GT for 90$.That card was insanely good for the price and could run pretty much anything at 1080p and 60 - 90fps.

even my “entry level” system of a ryzen 5 3600, a GTX 1650 and 16GB 3200 ram was around $700 when i built it (right before the gpu prices skyrocketed). entry level is getting more and more expensive as new games come out

i still have a system with r7 240 and i3 2120

@@iustin.29 for word processing?

@@ma-bn2fj yea :/ I feel like new "entry level" should be like $200-$400, $600-$1000 is what I would consider midrange if it wasn't like the minimum for a new parts with a dgpu setup.

Is it pci 4?

@@SupremeODMG No it's pci 3

or worse, PCIe 2.0. I have such a system, with a Haswell based CPU. They really should have stuck to 3.0 and put an x8 or x16 lane interface on this. But they didn't, because... reasons? I don't really understand why they did that.

It's not strange, it's just cheap. These cards are cost-reduced af

@@SeeJayPlayGames Its because this chip was designed for laptop first where most lower end GPUs are connected with x4 anyways and these will be paired with pcie 4.0 CPUs.

@@OTechnology idk man because the amount of copper wire, R&D, or anything they save by doing it this way might justify the move from the cost perspective, but does it worth causing people not wanting to buy it and instead go for a used RX570 etc. because it is what entry level market is like, seen with many past generations where the newest budget card is simply not as attractive as an old used one. From this perspective, the only thing that makes RX6400 worthy of buying is just the low profile and because it's brand new

Or is it because they know this card arent supposed to be a top seller so they just dont care anyway that sounds fair to me as well lmao

right, but here he just tested with Ivy Bridge which is PCIe 2.0... so we're already seeing worst-case scenario... what's your point?

@@SeeJayPlayGames Ivy Bridge is PCIe 3.0, but let's not assume that bargain basement OEM motherboard is PCIe 3.0 certified.

Depends on the game. Some older games would be perfectly satisfied with 4GB VRAM, so you would not need to use system RAM so much.

@@SeeJayPlayGames 3.0

@@SeeJayPlayGames I've bridge supports 3.0 as long as this on a chipset that supports it.

Yeah, they really should have given this card 8 PCIe lanes and the 6500XT should have 8 lanes as well. These low end cards were really gimped from that and also not having an encoder as well.

@@Dave-dh7rt Yes but AMD also explained that the RX 6500 and RX 6400 have been designed as dedicated Laptop cards. Thus the PCIe 4.0 x4 would be sufficient. I am not sure about the encoder.

What does 4 pcie lane has to do with anything? Sorry I don't understand any of these.

​@@rrsharizam PCIe nomenclature has a version number and a lane(s) number. PCIe of version 4.0 (shorthand PCIe 4.0) is theoretically twice as fast as PCIe 3.0. The card in this video only has 4 lanes, so you'd write it PCIe 4.0 x4. And 4 lanes (compared to the usual 16 lanes many gaming cards provide) is holding back the card. Using an older motherboard with only PCIe 3.0 would reduce the connection to the PCIe 3.0 x4 (version 3 with 4 lanes) and that reduces performance even further.

@@TanigaDanae Thanks. Anyway, I'm trying to build a PC but this is far too complicated. I guess I'll just buy from the fruit brand then

came here to point that out as well - the A2000 is basically a SFF 3060

RTX A2000 pricepoint is nowhere near RX 6400.

​@@3dr14ng4 sure, but I'm not claiming that - the video is titled "The New Most Powerful LP GPU", not the "most affordable" or" best value" just my 2c

Hey Dawid! Thanks for the awesome comment. I grew up in Windhoek, so I really feel you on that. I still check out Nanodog every now and then to see what kinda stuff they stock. Thank you for watching. 😃

@@DawidDoesTechStuff keep on making awsome content 😀

When he first showed the 1650 being used he commented that it is not low profile, that he didn’t have a low profile one available at time of testing

@@headhunterj3 Well, glossing over the fact that he did not have one on hand, I'd like to point out the 6400 and the 1650 directly compete because they are both low power cards with low profile configurations available, made within the last ~3 years. Edit because forgot some words.

bro the cpu botteneck is from the fact that rx6400 didn't include any vedio decoder

@@Gentleman_Hamilton rx6400 has decoder what is lacking is encoder only

@@mikinyaa that's why it can't help play 4k movies and leave all the work up for the cpu to do

@@Gentleman_Hamilton There's other benchmarks, where someone tests this card on 4k video. And it works flawlessly. Not sure what you're talking about, honestly.

GPUs this low power and performance won't even be an issue. If a nVidia 3090 isn't severely bottlenecked by a PCIe 2.0 16x interface, where multiple sources showed 5% average reduction in performance compared to PCIe 4.0 16x, then this low performance GPU will hardly have much difference even running at PCIe 2.0 8x speeds.

Most likely a non-issue for the 6400, it's a problem with the 6500XT as its on the edge of needing the extra bandwidth of pcie 4.0 due to the lanes and slow memory bus, the 6400 shouldn't need the extra bandwidth so most likely doesn't present the same issues.

@Christopher Tran lol, you're confused. Those tests are to PCIe 3.0 and not 2.0. And although 4.0*4 is as fast as 3.0*8 this doesn't have 8 lanes so is limited to 3.0*4 or in an even worse case 2.0*4 although dropping this in a system that old makes no sense as the cpu would bottleneck incredibly hard.

@@viet0ne a 3090 has 24gb of VRAM, not many trips over the PCIe lanes will be made there. With "only" 4gb of VRAM to spare, memory bandwidth starts being much more important.

@@viet0ne The issue isn't bottlenecking the GPU core itself. The issue is bottlenecking the communication between the VRAM and system memory, and if the GPU has to access something in system memory, since it is used as overflow for things like textures, it will cause problems. 4 PCIe Gen3 lanes are slower than even DDR3 800. So yes, the lane limitation is a bottleneck and it's not hard to fill up 4GB of VRAM. Not to mention, you don't even need to fill it up. Some games will be problematic even when the VRAM isn't full. It becomes an even worse issue with PCIe Gen2, which there are even 4th Gen Intel systems using PCIe Gen2. Anything with an H81 chipset is limited to PCIe Gen2. So, yes... this is a big issue. And it's made even worse by the 64-bit bus bandwidth.

it's not just laptops. Old office computers like the ones he used have it too. It's like people forgot that intel QuickSync Video has been around since 2011, baked into any half-decent processor ever since (not Celeron). Though, TBH, Handbrake does NOT like my Haswell, and simply fails to encode, but the Xbox recording interface doesn't seem to mind using it. Yes, AMD left out VCE for their low-end... but Dawid didn't mention that QSV could still be used. That's kind of a glaring omission.

@@SeeJayPlayGames It also doesn't take into account that most people don't record their games.

I have an RX 6400 and a Ryzen 5 4500 in a PC and it works very well with an old 220W PSU. The System probably only draws half of that at Load.

for what is a encoder needed for? :)

@@bartholomeo2075 usually for recording video, using the gpu instead of throwing all the tasks onto the cpu at once

@@boy2424 tuvm 😁

@@boy2424 if you record games with this GPU on OBS will it work good ?

yall winning the silicon lottery. I can only get +125mhz stable. regardless of voltage!!! my memory clock also only reaches 825mhz stable. whereas most people are getting 900-1000mhz Ive devastatingly lost the silicon lottery with my 1650 LP. zotac model.

@@mikeycrackson Yeah man. Especially on a card that’s capped at 75W via the PCI slot, or one of the E-Waste tier prebuilts that can’t cool a 125W 1660S.

@@realflow100 my 1650 d6, reaches 1785mhz @ 850mV with +150mhz on the memory, i could probably push the memory a little further but im too scared

Hi Robert, I also have a lenovo sff and I'm thinking of buying a rx6400,do you think the rx6400 would work without problems?

ah yes that reminds me of the shithole hp forums, the plan for me was to buy a prebuilt put a 1050ti and call it a day, so i bought a prebuilt hp with i5 2400 like 8 years ago, and it worked fine now i needed a gpu so i know a bit about pcs so i asked on hp forums what kind of slot it is obviously its 16x but is it low power or full power, they said they dont know, upon asking the second time they said its limited 8x at 35w, which i found strange so i thought they might know better than me, so i removed the cpu and ram hdd and bought a 1155 mobo asus deluxe(the fucking most expensive one probably :D) and a new case, new psu and a r9 280x, and the pc worked fine till the r9 and the psu died, so 2 years later i switched the stuff back into the prebuilt chassis and mobo and said fuck it ordered a used 1050 ti and guess what it fuckin' booted on the first go. i just threw 400 dollars down the drain for nothing.

Similar with may with my first and my second pc. Theyre Pcs from the bank where my Fater works. Because they replayced them evry three years when the guarantee ran out ive got them fro free. The second one was an HP elite desk g1 with an i5 4690 and 8gb ram. And originally an Quadro NVS 315. But that thind is so bad at games i replaced it after a maybe 2 Years with an gt 1030. Was way better at gamimg. For example from about 7 Fps in 720 low inf fortnite to about 50 fps mid in 1080p. But i still neded more than 2 gb of vram so ive built an entire new cusom pc in 2021.

@@BeastMode-4422 Wow what a horror HP story, it pains me to hear that for the for the 400$ :( I m poking with a friend's hp laptop (250 G4 I think) atm and I think that the thing is cursed or something. Strangely (extremely) long boot time and heating issues + overriding my boot order for some unknown reason.. and ofc upgradeability limited completely (there a spot for the second RAM bank on the mobo PCB, yet they didnt solder it on so the poor thing is stuck to 4 GB.. Maybe the brand and that stuff are the reason why there is a guy here locally selling a mid tower HP G1 4th gen for like 40 pounds with seemingly decent upgradeability.. it could be a trap and I wanna risk xd

@@swissix4947 I envy that :D I need to find a bank or an institution that dump something that good and hunt for LP gpu bargains. My uni only dump mid LGA 775 era hunks of junk with all the dust and weird proprietary stuff included

@@antoniobaric5798 im kinda debating if its worth springing 80 bucks for the 3770 and replacing the i5 2400, or just build a new pc with the ddr4 platform, i thought about going for ryzen since the mobos are cheaper still dunno, the i5 2400 is overdue and on its last legs performance wise :D

If you have one of those why would you buy an RX 6400?

@@sammoore2242 if I'm understanding this correctly, yes I agree with you. He should have put it in a newer pre-built with no bandwidth or CPU limitations for both GPUs

@@ExperiencersInternational but that isn't what the 6400 is supposed to be used for. It's supposed to be put in computers with low end psus.

Did you manage to find out the cause, tho?

@@Kraven83 Everyone on the IT team is convinced it's the new Samsung EVO ssd (like what), but of course I have no issues on my home machine. This being at work, this isn't really in my job description to look into and so it won't be solved.

What cheap sff pc has pcie4?

I doubt it can saturate a gen 3 slot. Won't make much difference if any.

And lack of any encoding support aswell

I'm seeing the prices drop on Ebay steadily. Can't wait, as I'm thinking of upgrading to one. Would be amazing to have a LP GPU with power close to a 3060, while also maintaining it's wattage usage below 70w.

Though who is going to have enough money to buy a motherboard with pcie 4 but not enough to spend an extra little bit on a gpu. So most of these gpu's will land up in older systems. Which is unfortunate.

Using a system with a mediocre old CPU also didn't help. I did not understand that, he should have something modern at home to test it properly..

@@xPandamon Theres plenty of benchmarks with high end CPU's. This is a more realistic use scenario

@@jasonjenkinson2049 In a less powerful PC your CPU will generally be the bottleneck. He talked about comparing it to the 1650, which needs a better system to really make sense. But anyways, the AMD wins easily. The much lower power draw and leagues better control center make it so much more appealing

But cost way more

Some quick googling suggests the A1000 is a laptop gpu? And the desktop cards start at A2000, can you point my in the direction of a desktop A1000?

The problem with your suggestion though is you can't really buy the RTX A1000 as easily as the RX 6400.

And don't forget a permit from local home owner association. Your GPU RGB lights might polluting neighborhood aesthetic and not to mention the power draw.

@@fajaradi1223 no kidding about TDP. My 2080 Super FTW3 Ultra draws a peak 386w after overclocking. Stays around the 84°C temp target at full bore with that giant heatsink, vapor tubes and triple fans, which just means the heat gets transferred to my room and now I need a window AC unit to play more demanding titles for more than 30 minutes to stay comfy

I always keep saying we should call them video bricks at this point.

@@bubbablake3983 Yikes. I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. I have a dud EVGA 1080ti that can't hit 2GHz so i undervolted the shit out of it. 1923mhz at 1000mv. Even at 100% usage in a gaming load it doesn't draw more than its original 250w power target and stays at a cool 67C vertical mounted in my NR200P. All this from a true 2 slot dual fan card.

@@christianmccollough5005 my Gigabyte 1080ti OC always is at 69ish°C at desktop, I think I need a repaste. And my 2080 stays cooler than that typically, it's typically around 56-58°C gaming on most of my titles, when not trying to blow the damn thing trying to get the most out. Typically it's 49°C at desktop. The 386w was during a tuning test as well, but darn, when it wants to crank up to keep up, that's when it gets toasty. Before tuning testing I think it had to be 140ish°F on my case top and side on the vertical mount on the exterior, not the card itself. Congrats on your results too, I'm happy for you, keep it up. I just got a 3090 FTW3 Ultra that's going in my Lian LI o11 XL so wish me luck on temps and not faulty/missing thermal pads/paste

Or just a 6500.. The XT was suppose to indicate refresh.

@@peterpan408 I said that as a joke. But, having a 6400 with a slightly higher power limit or faster memory would be great.

Yes, it's like they are made to be in a system with good case cooling, but most LP cases don't have good case cooling. I have a Radeon RX 560 that worked great (relatively speaking) in a full tower case I used it in for a while with very good cooling (it was an old case, but I replaced the old broken down fans with new Noctuas when I repurposed the case). Then I put it in a low profile case after I didn't need it in the tower anymore, and it overheats. I could do something with a low profile case to improve cooling, but that's kind of a pain.

They actually have pretty good psus, just not high wattage. They don't need high wattage, it's made for offices. Most pre-builts from even a decade ago till now have like 80+ titanium or platinum efficiency, most use atx 12vo of sorts even a decade ago.

​@@raycert07 There are still some off-brand dodgy OEM out there though.

@@raycert07 I have a Dell inspiron 530 from 2007 laying around with a 450 watt psu an 80 plus titanium.

@@swissix4947 I think that psu is on its way out, 15 years old is about when the great capacitor plague was going on which affected most devices

@@raycert07 the pc is not in use since 2019 i think anyways. Ive took many parts out. The HDD sits in my new pc. Its still nice that.they have so high ratings.

When you consider Navi 24 is a laptop die designed to be paired with an iGPU/APU that would provide the corners cut out, it makes sense.

The 6500 XT? It is also based on Navi24 aswell

What games do you play? I bought this card for my Dell OptiPlex 9020 i5-4670 3.4GHz RAM: 16GB.

@@argenisromero9266 Even though I have way more than I should have spent money on, the games I play on this machine are limited to Fortnite and Rocket League. I am an old feller, though, and I live to play Fortnite with my buddies... I would perhaps play the other games that I have, especially VR, but Fortnite is easy, and with the no build, it is just like any other shooter, except looks cartoony.. but I still love it anyway. And, as long as you leave the side cover off, and have a fan blowing on it, this card stays reasonable. I never ran it until it throttled with the side cover on... didn't wait... but then again, like i said, i am an old feller and well used to running with max fan noise and the cover off the machine. I am not Linus Tech Tips where everything has to be quiet... because that just isnt reasonable unless you leave your computer outside and you live in BC or Alaska where you might have two seconds out of the year with temperatures where you don't need to wear a snowsuit. I live in Georgia and it is hot. So the damned fans running full tilt doesn't bother me when I have my headphones on playing games. Either that or I crank the volume without headphones.