Radeon RX 6650 XT with AMD SAM: +6 % performance for 20 W

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We didn’t make it to the release day of the Radeon RX 6000 refresh, but we’ve got them – performance tests with the Resizable BAR active. Mostly this technology is useful, but in some cases it is harmful. The test results show how AMD tunes this technology across different driver versions, optimizes it, and sometimes breaks and doesn’t fix some things for a change. However, these are outnumbered, and quite overwhelmingly, by improvements.

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Test platform Hashcat; no extra settings. You can easily try the tests yourself. Just download the binary and enter the cipher you are interested in using the numeric code on the command line.










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  1. Got a PowerColor Hellhound, this card is perfect for 1080p gaming. It’s nice to know you can have more performance with this budget card. Thanks!

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