Nvidia RTX A400 vs AMD RX 6400 - Cheapest RTX vs Cheapest RX

Which low profile graphics card is better? The cheapest Nvidia RTX GPU, designed primarily for professional workstations, or the AMD Radeon RX 6400, intended for gaming purposes? Well let's find out...

0:00 Intro and Specs
1:07 Test Methodology
1:26 PCIe 4.0 Tests
1:49 Fallout 4
2:12 Cyberpunk 2077
3:04 Starfield
3:55 Elden Ring
4:48 Red Dead Redemption 2
5:29 Cyberpunk 2077 w/ Ray Tracing
6:09 PCIe 3.0 Tests
9:02 Final Words

Thanks for watching :)

[DylRicho]

Love these kinds of videos more than the RTX 4090 benchmarking videos to be honest!

[AderorhoFestus]

The RX6400 hitting playable framerates at sub-40w power usage is really impressive.

[TheKey]

I Have been hearing this "Hello everyone and welcome" since 2016... its been so long since i have been watching your channel. I Remember i had a core 2 duo and an aging gts 450 back in the day lol. Now i have a pretty beefy pc but i still love watching your lower budget hardware vids.

[DigitalJedi]

I would love to have seen the A310 fed into this bunch as well. A modern low-profile card shootout.

[bulutcagdas]

I forgot that the RX6400 ever existed. It really baffles me that the RX550 has more features such as ReLive and a half decent bus width that the 6400 doesn't have.

[mikethespike]

I absolutely love efficiency.
The RTX A400 pulled 48 watts at 2:15.
The RX 6400 got higher FPS with only 30 watts.
That's an insane difference.

Edit: Are you sure the power readings on the RX 6400 are correct?

[lennard]

It should be noted that the A400 actually has fewer true shading units. With Ampre, Nvidia decided that dual pump FP32 units effectively doubled its number of shaders per SM, whereas it's more like SMT for GPUs, so the actual number of physical shaders in both Ampere and Ada cards is half what Nvidia claims it is, at least by old definition and with regards to how AMD counts shaders.
So, the 6400 actually has twice as many actual physical shaders, which explains the performance delta.

[sulphurous]

We desperately need a revival of the single-slot GPU market segment.

[notificationguys]

Wtf

This makes RX 6400 look worth lmaoo

[FireFalcon]

Love this comparison

I just upgraded from a 960 4GB to a 50% off open box RX 6400 on a PCIE 3 system without rebar (Mainly for thermals and getting rid of a SATA to PCIE adapter) and it is a fairly solid card.

[chhandobhihbhushan]

Why people buy these ultra low end GPUs:
◽They may be misinformed about how GPUs work and just go for the cheapest.
◽They may not even have the money to buy a good value mid-range card especially considering current market.
◽They may not have knowledge about used market or are simply not comfortable buying used.
◽They may not be in a region where used market prices are cheap enough to justify.
◽They may have a 5 year old office PC that's uses a propriety 250W power supply and the cheapest low profile GTX1650 costs more then the PC itself.
◽They may be building a low end SFF PC.
◽They may literally just want a display adapter and may play some games here and there.
Or it maybe a combination of points mentioned above.

That's all there is to it, I just felt the need to write this down here because many people who will never ever buy these low-profile cards just hate on them for reasons I will never be able to understand.

[thebigeasy]

RX 6400 nearly have double FPS and half power consumption, thats pretty awesome

[KyleRuggles]

I've been wanting to see a comparison between these 2 cards, thank you!

[RenatoG]

I think the 6400 would be the perfect partner for an Optiplex sleeper build and if you want to casually game nothing too demanding.

[hidde]

Was looking for this exact comparison, thanks

[mattymoyouknow]

YAS! Love this video. Exactly what I was wondering after I watched your video the other day.

[dejanzabaljac]

Man, wow. How far did we went with video games. Great comparison with lopro gpu's. Thanks!

[zhayward]

Honestly i was expecting the A400 to beat the 6400 but it just didn't happen that little low spec amd card is a little efficiency beast im impressed

[BeefLettuceAndPotato]

I never understand these comments bringing up the pcie 4.0 like it really matters THAT much. if you're hung up on what is usually 2-3 fps when you're trying to just get your foot in the door to gaming with a low end low power card like that maybe you should just save up more or look for a console. If I'm buying this card to toss in some Optiplex system because I'm trying to spend the least amount of money possible I'm just glad I can play Elden Ring at all, who cares that it went down to 58fps. plenty of folks would just be happy to have ANY gaming pc.

[istileon]

I purchased an RX 6400 for my brother once. My father had an acer aspire desktop that had just died. After some troubleshooting it was the boot drive that died, so I grabbed one of my 512gb drives I had lying around and used that as a boot drive. Since I didn't trust any pcie adapters for those OEM builds, nor did we want to drop another 50 or so on the build, we just slapped an RX 6400 on there. For any e sports games (He was playing valorant, roblox, siege, and minecraft) he did just fine, and the few singleplayer games he did play were all servicable with FSR.

We recently upgraded his build so how hes rocking a 3060 and a 9700K. I have this RX 6400 lying around now and I may use it for a home server project. The low cost possibilities are endless.