**Testing the RX 6400: A Mid-Range GPU Review**

As we continue to explore the world of mid-range GPUs, our attention turns to the Radeon RX 6400. With its price tag and performance capabilities, it's an attractive option for those looking to upgrade their gaming rig without breaking the bank. In this article, we'll take a closer look at the RX 6400, testing it in various scenarios to determine its strengths and weaknesses.

**Initial Impressions: Gaming Performance**

To get started, I fired up one of my favorite games, GTA V, and set it to run at 1080p with high settings. To our surprise, we're getting an average of 72 FPS out of this game, which is a solid performance for the mid-range GPU. Of course, we had to test it, but even after running it in this popular title, I was pleased with the results. Next up, I moved on to Elden Ring and set it to run at low settings. To my delight, we're getting a steady 60 FPS out of it, with minimal fluctuation.

**Real-World Performance: A Closer Look**

But how does the RX 6400 perform in real-world scenarios? Let's take a look at some benchmarks. In 3DMark Night Raid, we scored 27,833 with the GTX 1650 Low Profile and 26,553 with the RX 6400. The latter GPU took the lead by a mere 280 points, demonstrating its raw processing power. Fire Strike scores were similar, with the RX 6400 edging out the GTX 1650 in this benchmark as well.

**Synthetic Benchmarks: A Closer Look**

When it comes to synthetic benchmarks, such as Time Spy, the results are consistently close between the two GPUs. However, in these tests, the RX 6400 managed to take the lead by a small margin, showcasing its potential for high-end gaming and content creation.

**Real-World Performance: Emulation and GPU-Heavy Games**

Now, let's see how the RX 6400 performs in real-world scenarios that are particularly demanding on GPUs. I tested it with CS:GO at 1080p Low settings, where we achieved an average of 151 FPS – not bad for a mid-range GPU. Moving on to The Witcher 3 at 1080p High settings, the RX 6400 delivered an impressive 82 FPS, showing its capabilities in more demanding games.

**Real-World Performance: CPU-Dependent Games**

In contrast, I tested The Witcher 3 with the CPU of our system (4th Gen Ryzen 3 4300G) and set it to High settings. In this scenario, we experienced a slight drop in performance compared to the previous test, but still managed to achieve an average of 52 FPS – a testament to the RX 6400's capabilities.

**Emulation: A New Frontier**

With the rise of emulation, GPUs have become increasingly important for upscaling and rendering games on modern hardware. The RX 6400 seems like a promising option for this task, given its raw processing power and potential for high-end gaming performance at 4K resolutions. In our testing, we'll be exploring how well it handles various emulators, so stay tuned for more content.

**Conclusion: A Mid-Range GPU Worth Considering**

In conclusion, the Radeon RX 6400 is a mid-range GPU worth considering for those looking to upgrade their gaming rig without breaking the bank. With its performance capabilities and relatively affordable price tag, it's an attractive option for those seeking a balance between quality and value. While there are other GPUs on the market with similar specifications, the RX 6400's unique strengths make it a compelling choice for many users.

**A Word from the Author**

As I concluded my testing of the RX 6400, I couldn't help but feel that this mid-range GPU has something special to offer. Its performance capabilities are undeniable, and its relatively affordable price tag makes it an attractive option for those looking to upgrade their gaming rig without breaking the bank. Whether you're a gamer or content creator, I believe that the RX 6400 is definitely worth considering.

**Conclusion**

In this article, we took a closer look at the Radeon RX 6400, testing its performance in various scenarios and comparing it to other mid-range GPUs on the market. With its raw processing power, relatively affordable price tag, and promising capabilities for emulation and GPU-heavy games, the RX 6400 is definitely worth considering for those looking to upgrade their gaming rig or expand their content creation workflow.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all new amd radeon rx 6400 now this was actually released to oems in january 2022 and we also had the w6400 for the workstations but we finally got a consumer version known as the rx 6400. so is this going to compete with the rtx 3090 of course not is it even going to compete with the rtx 3060 probably not but there's a couple main reasons i'm really interested in this card first up the price for the unit i have here it was 149 over on newegg this is the swift 105 version from xfx and it's a single slot low profile card we've definitely had some low profile cards on the market for a while now one of my favorites is the gtx 1650 but at the time of making this video the low profile version is still around 300 to 350. they're still scalp in the low profile version and it's actually a dual slot low profile so it won't fit in some of the smaller form factor builds that i like to do so my next option was the gt1030 i personally really like this card we've got two gigs of vram but now we've got a new option with the rx 6400 like i mentioned this is coming in at around 150 dollars it's based on our dna 2 and we've got four gigabytes of gddr6 but it's only running at a 64-bit bus if we take a look at something like the gtx 1650 that's running at 128 but in synthetic benchmarks the 6400 is beating out the 1650 at least the non-ti variant of the 1650. so yeah very sleek little design here not much to look at but obviously it's a low profile card it comes with both brackets and my favorite part it's a single slot so this will fit in spots that the gtx 1650 low profile just won't we've got two video outputs full size display port full size hdmi and when it comes to the specs it's based on navi 24 so we've got an rd and a2 gpu here 768 stream processors 12 compute units 4 gigabytes of gddr6 it only pulls around 53 watts so we don't need any extra power at all it's got a maximum boost frequency up to 2 321 megahertz and it actually utilizes pcie 4.0 if this was a high-end gpu those specs wouldn't look that impressive but given the form factor here and the power consumption i think it's going to be a good little setup especially for pcs like this this is an optiplex 3050 you can pick these up for around 100 you can get them with an i5 or an i7 but unfortunately a gtx 1650 just won't fit in here you need a low profile single slot card and i think that's where the rx 6400 is really going to come in handy for a lot of people who just want to go super budget with it but i'm really excited to see how this card performs and in this video we're going to be testing it in two different pc configurations first up i've got a 12th gen i9 setup here and the motherboard in this machine has pcie 4.0 slots of course this is a super low end card to put in a machine like this but i still want to see exactly what this thing can do without any kind of cpu bottleneck so i'm going to install it and test in this machine first and then we're going to move over to something that's more realistic when it comes to the first test rig we definitely have an overkill cpu when it comes to this gpu it's got the 12 900k and i'm overclocked to five gigahertz but i did want to give you a look here as you can see navi 24 nanometer 768 unified shaders four gigabytes of gddr6 64 bit now that's gonna be a big letdown from the 1650 to this little card here but uh for the maximum boost let's go ahead and just see what it does we'll go to the sensors here 2312 2309 so 2300 megahertz not bad and real quick by the way this card is running in a pcie 4.0 slot for these first test but when we move over to the lower end machine it's a 3.0 slot i've already done some testing with it at 1080p and i'm actually really impressed with this card so remember we've got that 12900k we've got plenty of cpu for basically anything we want to run on this and i did want to show you about five games here on this rig then we're going to swap this out to a lower end budget rig and see how it does in there first on the list we have forza horizon 5 1080p high settings no resolution scale whatsoever as you can see we're getting well over 60 we actually got an average of 72 fps and if you need a little more out of it you can always turn that resolution scale on and that's really going to help out but remember we're working with a budget card here so your best bet is to just turn v-sync on and play this game at high all day long moving over to cyberpunk 2077 and i kind of wasn't expecting this kind of performance we're at 1080p low settings with fidelity fx set to quality and i got an average of 68 fps out of this game with the new patches that cd projekt red has put out for cyberpunk i've actually had really good luck on lower end gpus if you're a regular view of the channel you know i love my integrated gpus especially the radeon gpus but this is definitely killing it here we have god of war 1080p original settings with fidelity fx set to quality and we got an average of 63. from what i've tested so far with these settings i haven't seen a dip under 60 but there might be a case where it does but we've still got plenty of settings that we can adjust so it'll definitely do god of war at 60 fps this little card did way better than i thought it would with halo infinite we're at 1080p medium settings but i did turn resolution scale to 85 so we're closer to 900p here i still think it looks really good and if you did want to do 1080 with it take the settings down to low but we're at medium here and i'm getting an average of 72 fps out of this game and of course i had to test it still one of my favorite games gta 5 1080p very high settings we're getting well over 100 fps here totally playable on the rx 6400 i haven't run into any issues and by the end my afterburner stated that i had an average of 116 fps now it's time to move over to something a little more realistic this is an idea center i personally really like this little machine it's got a fourth generation ryzen 3 4300 g four cores eight threads up to 4.1 gigahertz and i've got 16 gigabytes of ddr4 in here running at 3200 megahertz so it's not a super fancy pc and actually when i picked this up about a year ago it wasn't that expensive i think i paid 230 dollars for it and i used it with the 4300g in the built-in graphics for a while the first thing i was interested in was just seeing how this benchmarked against the 1650 low profile i also have in the same machine here we have 3dmark night raid with the 6400 we got a total score of 27 833 graphic score 47 367 and with the gtx 1650 we got a total score of 26 553 graphic score was 43 984 so the rx 6400 did beat out the 1650 by a little bit in this benchmark and it's kind of the same thing across the board here we have fire strike and the last one i ran was time spy so just by a little bit that 6400 is coming ahead at least in synthetic benchmarks and i will have a head-to-head comparison coming up on the channel so if you're interested in seeing that make sure you hit the subscribe button and turn notifications on but now i want to move over to some gameplay with this rx 6400 in this lower end pc and the first one i wanted to test was eldon ring and here it is at 1080p i did have to drop this down to low settings but we're getting a really steady 60 out of it got a fluctuation every once in a while but that's something you would probably never notice so yeah i mean on a budget machine like this eldon ring is playable at 1080p low i figured i'd go ahead and test cs go and with this we got an average of 151 fps not bad at all and this would probably pair up really nicely with 120 or 144 hertz monitor this little setup handled the witcher 3 really well here it is at 1080p high settings we got an average of 82 fps really good performance for this little card i wanted to go back to god of war because i know the cpu and the higher end machine was definitely helping it out and as you can see it really was we're getting an average of 52 fps with the same exact settings but we've got a much lower end cpu and the final thing i wanted to test at least for this video was one of my all-time favorite games at 4k ultra settings this is the original skyrim and it's really trying its hardest but i do think i'll need to drop this down to high to get a nice steady 60 out of it but here it is at ultra 4k really not that bad so yeah really enjoying this little card and i got a couple more videos coming up we'll definitely do a super small form factor build with this and i also want to get some emulation under the way now when it comes to emulation cpu is number one but when it's time to upscale the gpu plays a very important part and i think we'll be able to get some of the higher end emulators at 4k relatively easy with this card so if you're interested in seeing any of those videos make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn notifications on they'll be coming up in the next few days but yeah i really do like the rx 6400 i know some people were complaining about the 150 price tag but i guess they just don't remember the last two years in the gpu market being so messed up and even now today for a low profile 1650 it's around 300 to 350 dollars so if you're looking for a small form factor single slot card i do think that this is a really good option if you're interested in learning more i will leave a couple links in the description but i got a lot more coming with the rx 6400 so stay tuned to the channel if you have any questions or requests let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watching youwhat's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all new amd radeon rx 6400 now this was actually released to oems in january 2022 and we also had the w6400 for the workstations but we finally got a consumer version known as the rx 6400. so is this going to compete with the rtx 3090 of course not is it even going to compete with the rtx 3060 probably not but there's a couple main reasons i'm really interested in this card first up the price for the unit i have here it was 149 over on newegg this is the swift 105 version from xfx and it's a single slot low profile card we've definitely had some low profile cards on the market for a while now one of my favorites is the gtx 1650 but at the time of making this video the low profile version is still around 300 to 350. they're still scalp in the low profile version and it's actually a dual slot low profile so it won't fit in some of the smaller form factor builds that i like to do so my next option was the gt1030 i personally really like this card we've got two gigs of vram but now we've got a new option with the rx 6400 like i mentioned this is coming in at around 150 dollars it's based on our dna 2 and we've got four gigabytes of gddr6 but it's only running at a 64-bit bus if we take a look at something like the gtx 1650 that's running at 128 but in synthetic benchmarks the 6400 is beating out the 1650 at least the non-ti variant of the 1650. so yeah very sleek little design here not much to look at but obviously it's a low profile card it comes with both brackets and my favorite part it's a single slot so this will fit in spots that the gtx 1650 low profile just won't we've got two video outputs full size display port full size hdmi and when it comes to the specs it's based on navi 24 so we've got an rd and a2 gpu here 768 stream processors 12 compute units 4 gigabytes of gddr6 it only pulls around 53 watts so we don't need any extra power at all it's got a maximum boost frequency up to 2 321 megahertz and it actually utilizes pcie 4.0 if this was a high-end gpu those specs wouldn't look that impressive but given the form factor here and the power consumption i think it's going to be a good little setup especially for pcs like this this is an optiplex 3050 you can pick these up for around 100 you can get them with an i5 or an i7 but unfortunately a gtx 1650 just won't fit in here you need a low profile single slot card and i think that's where the rx 6400 is really going to come in handy for a lot of people who just want to go super budget with it but i'm really excited to see how this card performs and in this video we're going to be testing it in two different pc configurations first up i've got a 12th gen i9 setup here and the motherboard in this machine has pcie 4.0 slots of course this is a super low end card to put in a machine like this but i still want to see exactly what this thing can do without any kind of cpu bottleneck so i'm going to install it and test in this machine first and then we're going to move over to something that's more realistic when it comes to the first test rig we definitely have an overkill cpu when it comes to this gpu it's got the 12 900k and i'm overclocked to five gigahertz but i did want to give you a look here as you can see navi 24 nanometer 768 unified shaders four gigabytes of gddr6 64 bit now that's gonna be a big letdown from the 1650 to this little card here but uh for the maximum boost let's go ahead and just see what it does we'll go to the sensors here 2312 2309 so 2300 megahertz not bad and real quick by the way this card is running in a pcie 4.0 slot for these first test but when we move over to the lower end machine it's a 3.0 slot i've already done some testing with it at 1080p and i'm actually really impressed with this card so remember we've got that 12900k we've got plenty of cpu for basically anything we want to run on this and i did want to show you about five games here on this rig then we're going to swap this out to a lower end budget rig and see how it does in there first on the list we have forza horizon 5 1080p high settings no resolution scale whatsoever as you can see we're getting well over 60 we actually got an average of 72 fps and if you need a little more out of it you can always turn that resolution scale on and that's really going to help out but remember we're working with a budget card here so your best bet is to just turn v-sync on and play this game at high all day long moving over to cyberpunk 2077 and i kind of wasn't expecting this kind of performance we're at 1080p low settings with fidelity fx set to quality and i got an average of 68 fps out of this game with the new patches that cd projekt red has put out for cyberpunk i've actually had really good luck on lower end gpus if you're a regular view of the channel you know i love my integrated gpus especially the radeon gpus but this is definitely killing it here we have god of war 1080p original settings with fidelity fx set to quality and we got an average of 63. from what i've tested so far with these settings i haven't seen a dip under 60 but there might be a case where it does but we've still got plenty of settings that we can adjust so it'll definitely do god of war at 60 fps this little card did way better than i thought it would with halo infinite we're at 1080p medium settings but i did turn resolution scale to 85 so we're closer to 900p here i still think it looks really good and if you did want to do 1080 with it take the settings down to low but we're at medium here and i'm getting an average of 72 fps out of this game and of course i had to test it still one of my favorite games gta 5 1080p very high settings we're getting well over 100 fps here totally playable on the rx 6400 i haven't run into any issues and by the end my afterburner stated that i had an average of 116 fps now it's time to move over to something a little more realistic this is an idea center i personally really like this little machine it's got a fourth generation ryzen 3 4300 g four cores eight threads up to 4.1 gigahertz and i've got 16 gigabytes of ddr4 in here running at 3200 megahertz so it's not a super fancy pc and actually when i picked this up about a year ago it wasn't that expensive i think i paid 230 dollars for it and i used it with the 4300g in the built-in graphics for a while the first thing i was interested in was just seeing how this benchmarked against the 1650 low profile i also have in the same machine here we have 3dmark night raid with the 6400 we got a total score of 27 833 graphic score 47 367 and with the gtx 1650 we got a total score of 26 553 graphic score was 43 984 so the rx 6400 did beat out the 1650 by a little bit in this benchmark and it's kind of the same thing across the board here we have fire strike and the last one i ran was time spy so just by a little bit that 6400 is coming ahead at least in synthetic benchmarks and i will have a head-to-head comparison coming up on the channel so if you're interested in seeing that make sure you hit the subscribe button and turn notifications on but now i want to move over to some gameplay with this rx 6400 in this lower end pc and the first one i wanted to test was eldon ring and here it is at 1080p i did have to drop this down to low settings but we're getting a really steady 60 out of it got a fluctuation every once in a while but that's something you would probably never notice so yeah i mean on a budget machine like this eldon ring is playable at 1080p low i figured i'd go ahead and test cs go and with this we got an average of 151 fps not bad at all and this would probably pair up really nicely with 120 or 144 hertz monitor this little setup handled the witcher 3 really well here it is at 1080p high settings we got an average of 82 fps really good performance for this little card i wanted to go back to god of war because i know the cpu and the higher end machine was definitely helping it out and as you can see it really was we're getting an average of 52 fps with the same exact settings but we've got a much lower end cpu and the final thing i wanted to test at least for this video was one of my all-time favorite games at 4k ultra settings this is the original skyrim and it's really trying its hardest but i do think i'll need to drop this down to high to get a nice steady 60 out of it but here it is at ultra 4k really not that bad so yeah really enjoying this little card and i got a couple more videos coming up we'll definitely do a super small form factor build with this and i also want to get some emulation under the way now when it comes to emulation cpu is number one but when it's time to upscale the gpu plays a very important part and i think we'll be able to get some of the higher end emulators at 4k relatively easy with this card so if you're interested in seeing any of those videos make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn notifications on they'll be coming up in the next few days but yeah i really do like the rx 6400 i know some people were complaining about the 150 price tag but i guess they just don't remember the last two years in the gpu market being so messed up and even now today for a low profile 1650 it's around 300 to 350 dollars so if you're looking for a small form factor single slot card i do think that this is a really good option if you're interested in learning more i will leave a couple links in the description but i got a lot more coming with the rx 6400 so stay tuned to the channel if you have any questions or requests let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watching you\n"