[snuxoll]

Or even new ones, like the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT that had the AV1 decoder chopped off the Navi die for some inexplicable reason.

[dannyw]

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.

[ChuckNorris89]

>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

[shmerl]

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