AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6400 Are Reportedly the World’s First 6-Nanometer Graphics Cards

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AMD’s upcoming duo of RDNA 2 graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6400, are supposedly the first to be built on a 6-nanometer process technology.



This is according to a source with VideoCardz, which suggests that the Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6400 are likely being manufactured on TSMC’s N6, a process that the company has said offers 18 percent higher logic density versus N7 (first-gen 7 nm). Current Radeon RX 6000 Series products are built on TSMC’s N7 process.



“For its Navi 24 SKUs, AMD is introducing a new (marketing) specs metric, which is Memory Bandwidth with Infinity Cache,” VideoCardz wrote regarding the new budget options. “According to official specs, the RX 6500 XT has 232 GB/s and RX 6400 has 216 GB/s. Those figures without Infinity Cache would (probably) be 128 GB/s and 112 GB/s respectively. This also implies that...

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[Brian_B]

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