is a radeon rx 6500 xt safe with a 350 watt psu

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hey everyone ik i did a few posts about if any gpus were safe for this 350 watt psu that i have in my pc but ive heard 6500 xt is capable of 1080p high settings and it dosent take up much power and my cpu is ryzen 5 5600g
(srry about so many of these posts im just thinking of upgrading or gettin a new pc just im a little concerned)

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ok so tbh if there isnt really much good options than im might get rx 6500 xt 8gb version or rtx a2000

[r.linder]

6600 draws around 132W, but you can undervolt and underclock to reduce power consumption under load

With Nvidia it’s more tricky since it’ll try to compensate for lower voltage anyway

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Originalmente postado por 尺．し工几句ヨ尺:

6600 draws around 132W, but you can undervolt and underclock to reduce power consumption under load

With Nvidia it’s more tricky since it’ll try to compensate for lower voltage anyway

man idk like i originally wanted a rx 6600 but the wattage just im not sure if i want to risk it or not i have a 350 watt power supply after all and the sapphire version is 140 watts and 500 watts recomendation for psu so like i want a rx 6600 just im not sure if i should go for it or not and the 6500 xt seems more of a safer option and its still decent so please help me and guide me to the right path

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PhilyGamer14 , bro , you re CPU is a good one but it supports PCI-E 3.0 . Along with x4 lanes of RX 6500 XT it s not wise to get RX 6500 .XT

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Originalmente postado por smallcat:

PhilyGamer14 , bro , you re CPU is a good one but it supports PCI-E 3.0 . Along with x4 lanes of RX 6500 XT it s not wise to get RX 6500 .XT

well i mean the rx 6500 xt has better and more decent preformance than my rx 6400 but what to do tho and ye i have pcie 3 so it will have a lil less frames but who even knows

[r.linder]

Originalmente postado por PhilyGamer14:

Originalmente postado por 尺．し工几句ヨ尺:

6600 draws around 132W, but you can undervolt and underclock to reduce power consumption under load

With Nvidia it’s more tricky since it’ll try to compensate for lower voltage anyway

man idk like i originally wanted a rx 6600 but the wattage just im not sure if i want to risk it or not i have a 350 watt power supply after all and the sapphire version is 140 watts and 500 watts recomendation for psu so like i want a rx 6600 just im not sure if i should go for it or not and the 6500 xt seems more of a safer option and its still decent so please help me and guide me to the right path

It’s not, it performs much worse on that because it has only 4 pcie 4.0 lanes which on a 3.0 APU means drastically less performance than it would be with a 3600 on a B550 board.

The 6600 has 8 lanes, which incurs much less of a bottleneck from bandwidth. The 6500xt isn’t worth buying, and the 6400 is worse on that front, it’s also held back by slot bandwidth.

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Originalmente postado por 尺．し工几句ヨ尺:

Originalmente postado por PhilyGamer14:

man idk like i originally wanted a rx 6600 but the wattage just im not sure if i want to risk it or not i have a 350 watt power supply after all and the sapphire version is 140 watts and 500 watts recomendation for psu so like i want a rx 6600 just im not sure if i should go for it or not and the 6500 xt seems more of a safer option and its still decent so please help me and guide me to the right path

It’s not, it performs much worse on that because it has only 4 pcie 4.0 lanes which on a 3.0 APU means drastically less performance than it would be with a 3600 on a B550 board.

The 6600 has 8 lanes, which incurs much less of a bottleneck from bandwidth. The 6500xt isn’t worth buying, and the 6400 is worse on that front, it’s also held back by slot bandwidth.

idk what to do at this point i mean getting a new pc would be expensive plus all the gpus i want are prob not safe for my pc

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ight how bout this tell me all of the gpus that my psu can handle and i will maybe do a descision of the gpus if i want to upgrade the gpu at least

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All of your options are pretty limited. The best one overall is probably the RTX A2000 because you don’t have to do anything other than uninstall the AMD drivers and then install Nvidia drivers

It’s a 70W card that performs just a bit slower than a 2060 or 6600

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Originalmente postado por 尺．し工几句ヨ尺:

All of your options are pretty limited. The best one overall is probably the RTX A2000 because you don’t have to do anything other than uninstall the AMD drivers and then install Nvidia drivers

It’s a 70W card that performs just a bit slower than a 2060 or 6600

what would the equivalent be to the rtx a2000

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Originalmente postado por PhilyGamer14:

Originalmente postado por 尺．し工几句ヨ尺:

All of your options are pretty limited. The best one overall is probably the RTX A2000 because you don’t have to do anything other than uninstall the AMD drivers and then install Nvidia drivers

It’s a 70W card that performs just a bit slower than a 2060 or 6600

what would the equivalent be to the rtx a2000

There isn’t one, all of the options that use the same amount of power perform worse, you’re basically only looking at the GTX 1650 or 1650 Super at most

Anything more and overall power draw will be too high to sustain that PSU for more than a few years before it busts due to stress and cheap components failing, and a PSU blowing can kill the whole system if you’re unlucky

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Ok yea if its a PCIE 3.0 max supporting CPU then AMD GPUs are out of the question.
RTX 20 and 30 series doesn't really have that issue however.

They make a lower powered Mini RTX 2060 and 2070

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Originalmente postado por PhilyGamer14:

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Should be fine. As someone who has one a 6500xt will rarely if ever exceed 80w, even with a top end OC. The PCIe power is more for show than reality outside of rare instances and spikes.

If you have worries go for the fairly comparable 4GB 6400. It will work for sure.

Edit: See you have the 6400. Then wouldnt look too much at the 6500 just because its not a huge upgrade. But depending on your games might be worth it.

Better to save the money a bit longer and jump to a better PSU if able and a 6600 or the likes.

i cant get a new psu

Okay if you already have Rx 6400 then Rx 6500xt is meaningless. They are almost the same. As of matter of fact I own the xfx Rx 6400 and it does the exact same thing as the Rx 6500xt. One is barely faster than the other and you happen to have the one that actually makes more sense. The 6400 will always make far more sense.

Your pretty much stuck in the same realm of Rx 6400/GTX 1650/Rx 6500xt. You can only run these and you already have one. You must get a PSU or you're stuck with side grades.

You need a PSU and an rtx 3060 and call it a day (or the Rx 6700).

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He can’t because he needs a new motherboard as it has a 4pin atx power connector, not a 24pin

He would have to change out the motherboard and power supply, and the case itself won’t fit full size GPUs so he’d need a smaller single fan model most likely

Best case scenario is a 1650 Super in terms of power budget because the PSU probably can’t handle more than a 100W card in the long term

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Originalmente postado por 尺．し工几句ヨ尺:

Originalmente postado por PhilyGamer14:

what would the equivalent be to the rtx a2000

There isn’t one, all of the options that use the same amount of power perform worse, you’re basically only looking at the GTX 1650 or 1650 Super at most

Anything more and overall power draw will be too high to sustain that PSU for more than a few years before it busts due to stress and cheap components failing, and a PSU blowing can kill the whole system if you’re unlucky

oh no