We are seeing how the graphics cards are lowering their price little by little and are approaching the MSRP and although there are a few months left for this to happen in the meantime, AMD has silently put up for sale what will be the youngest of all the sisters of the RX 6000 series, the RX 6400 . A cheap entry-level graphics card that has the honor of being the first low profile and also the cheapest that AMD will have in its catalog. How is this GPU appreciated?
It is not a graphics card for moderately demanding gamers, far from it, but it does not pretend to be. It is the youngest of all the sisters and represents, as we say, the entry range to the series and above all, the option for those who play with low settings and who have no pretensions of large FPS on screen, which will affect a very high price. adjusted that make it very attractive.
AMD RX 6400: cheap graphics for the most basic
It does not mean that it is a GPU for office automation or work, nothing like that, but the truth is that it is not a graphics card to play a game with aspirations to have a high FPS rate at 1080p. It is a compact card in a low profile ITX format that is perfect for a low gaming team or for the much reborn HTPC or SFF PC.
Let’s know its characteristics to get a better idea, since AMD has not given it much hype for reasons that we do not understand, since it is clearly the “graphic of the people”. The RX 6400 integrates a Navi 24 XL GPU manufactured by TSMC at 6nm and integrates 5.4 billion transistors into its die for a chip of only 107mm2 .
It has 12 CUs that integrate 768 Shaders with 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs and 12 Ray Tracing units, all with a 32 KB L0 cache per WGP, 128 KB for each array in L1, 1024 KB of L2 and 16 MB of Infinity Cache. .
We will have the aforementioned 4 GB of GDDR6 at 16 Gbps , a Boost frequency of 2,321 MHz , a 64-bit memory bus and therefore a bandwidth of 128 GB/s . As we can see, very brief figures that are also reflected in its consumption and its price.
A GPU without a PCIe connector and for all audiences
And it is that with only 53 watts of TDP it requires a power supply of only 250 watts , which makes it perfect for any modern PC, even compact PCs with weak PSUs. Its performance is up to its specifications and it is that it throws in FP32 no less than 3,565 TFLOPS , which is not bad at all if we take into account the power of the chip.
To get an idea, we talk about a performance above the GTX 1050 Ti and at the height of the RX 590, but far behind its superior sister RX 6500 XT by more than 50% of the performance by far.
It is therefore not a GPU to look for a minimum performance in gaming with FPS above 60 or resolutions above 1080p, but a cool, cheap GPU (the RX 6400 has an MSRP of $159 , we will see the prices in real stores …) and that it must have a large stock because it cannot be used for mining by Ethereum miners.