In a bid to be the head honcho of the graphics card industry, bothAMDand Nvidia have been launching a number of products while there’s still time left in this current generation. Alongside the two long-standing rivals,Intel is due to release its desktop Arc cards this summer, possibly by June, which will spark even greater competition in the already pretty militant market. Team red recently released a new budget GPU, no doubt to curry favor with those looking for more affordable, low-end products, but there appears to be something missing.
According to the review from Tech Powerup, it seems thatAMDmay have disabled overclocking on its recent Radeon RX 6400. An image from the settings panel in Wattman, a power managing utility which controls numerous functions on its graphics cards, shows that when the “Manual Tuning” option is set to custom, no sliders appear. This suggests that users are unable to adjust the clock speed of the 6400, which will no doubt be a negative for some.
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AMD released the RX 6400 just last week, and to little fanfare as well. It seems to have been launched in stark contrast to Nvidia’s beefy RTX 3090 Ti, a card which seems to put out a 10% increase over its predecessor, yet has a 30% markup on the 3090. Of course, both tech giants are in the game to appeal to as many PC gamers as possible, and that includes both budget seekers and the more enthusiast buyers. That said, for AMD to disable overclocking seems like a poor move on its part, especially for those who were hoping to get a little boost out of the cheap card.
The review also indicates that team red’s new budget GPU is cheaper than both theNvidia GTX 1650 Superand the standard 1650, which it seems to have been aiming to stack alongside. However, while it does appear to outperform the three-year-old 1650, except when it comes to cores, it doesn’t look like it can take on the Super variant, which by now is about two and a half years old. In general, there will be some who will not be happy with what AMD has done.
Alongside that, the next generation of GPUs is due to launch later on this year. WithNvidia reportedly testing its RTX 40-series, andAMDlooking to unleash its RDNA 3 architecture towards the latter parts of 2022, the race is on to see which one will come out on top. Unless Intel has something up its sleeves, that is.
