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The reason is because it's harvested from a laptop chip; and in laptops, the Ryzen 5000 media engine features AV1 decode, so it's wasted die space.

Still, the 6500 XT is an awful GPU.



>the Ryzen 5000 media engine features AV1 decode

No it doesn't.[1] Ryzen 5000's iGPU is based on the older Vega architecture and has no AV1 support, so everyone like me who just bought a brand speaking new laptop with Ryzen 5000 will be screwed soon enough.

[1] https://cpufinder.com/amd-ryzen-7-5800u


Yeah, you need to wait until 6000 series. AMD really dragged their feet with APUs.




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