ASUS Dual AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT OC Edition 4GB GDDR6 Gaming Graphics Card - £139.09 Sold by Amazon EU @ Amazon

Bought one of these for a build during the dark times when no GPUs were available. Didn't pay much more than this almost two years ago. Now you can get 8GB RX580 2048SPs from AliExpress for around £70 I'd probably avoid this now.

This should really be no more than £100 IMO.

Would this play minecraft java edition at a decent FPS at 1080p or above?

Looking for a budget upgrade for the kids, they each got a basic wowcher type PC for Christmas (not my idea ).. currently have GT710 2GB cards so presume at least better than that...?

Would this be a decent upgrade from a evga 1070 8gb card at all?

Impossibly bad piece of cynical garbage from AMD- 'excused' by Ngreedia doing worse at the so-called 'low' end.

Get a cheap 580/5700/6600M from China instead.

AMD should have had APU's beating this POS at the same price by now. Thankfully AMD is now being forced by market factors to build great APUs, so by 2024 discrete GPUs in this performance sector should be obsolete- and about time too.

Basically an RX580 in perf, 6 years later for a similar price, unless you have a gen3 board in which case it's gonna choke on those 4x lanes and be even worse. This is bad no matter how you look at it for the price. Especially considering what you can get second hand at this price.

If you have saved £140 to spend on a GPU....save another £55 and buy a 6600. The performance gain is massive. This is a £100 card

It's hard to recommend this card unless you are averse to buying a used one.

The RX 6500 XT is a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 card that doesn't play nicely when run in older PCI-E 3.0 systems. Techspot claims the cards sees a "30% decline in performance" when running in a Gen3.0 slot. Bear that in mind if upgrading an older system.

If you have to buy new then consider spending an extra £60 for the RX 6600 which would net you 60%+ extra performance.

If you are someone who wants the most FPS for the least amount money and is ok buying used, then both the RX 5600 XT and RX 5700 are out there for less money and offering around a 50% performance boost.

it's hot from me. It's a solid 1080p brand new card with low power requirements. Yes, the VRAM is somewhat measly but the most popular graphics card around at the moment is the GTx 1650 and this will run rings around that.

for 20 to 30 more you can get a 5700 xt from aliexpress, a 100% faster card for max £30 more! Id check the options on aliexpress though, I was looking last week and some cards have higher boost speeds than others.

Pretty rubbish card.
PCIE 4 is a disadvantage; it only uses 4x which means its slower than a PCIE 3 16x card.
Also means if your system is only 3x you are going to see a massive decrease in performance.

It doesn't have any video encoding; so you can't use it to save clips; have to rely on a software solution.

Also 4gb of ram is criminal for a new card; even at this price point.

A used rx470/480/570/580 is about the same performance and a lot cheaper. If you want a new card pay the extra 50 and get a rx6600 which is probably more than twice as fast and will actually last.