The Sapphire Radeon RX 6400 PULSE is a next-generation graphics card that is presented as a very compact solution, as it has low profile design and occupies only one expansion slotthanks to its modest cooling system.

Generally speaking, the Sapphire Radeon RX 6400 PULSE maintains a line, design, and construction instructions very similar to those we’ve seen with the Radeon Pro W6400, and it’s perfectly normal because the latter is professional version of the first.

The cooling system on which the Sapphire Radeon RX 6400 PULSE is located consists of small radiator and simple fan. It may not seem like it, but it’s more than enough to keep the temperature of this graphics card, which has a TBP of 53 watts. Of course, you don’t need an additional power connector, because you get all the power you need from the PCIE slot.

And speaking of a PCIE slot, the Sapphire Radeon RX 6400 PULSE is limited to the PCIE Gen4 x4 interface, which means that if we connect it to the PCIE Gen3 interface, it will only work in x4 mode, with all that follows in terms of width. , band. We’ve seen it before significantly reduces performance its older sister, the Radeon RX 6500 XT, though in this case the impact should be smaller because the Radeon RX 6400 is significantly less powerful.

Specifications Sapphire Radeon RX 6400 PULSE

• Navi 24 GPU on a 6nm node.
• 768 shaders.
• 48 texturing units.
• 32 raster units.
• 12 cores for ray tracing.
• 64-bit bus.
• 16 MB infinite cache.
• 4 GB GDDR6 memory at 16 GHz.
• 53W TBP.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6400 PULSE will be limited to two outputs, one HDMI 2.1 and one DisplayPort 1.4, which is enough for most users. We do not have details of its possible selling price, but due to the fact that the Radeon RX 6500 XT arrived with a recommended price of 200 euros, this model should be between 120 and 130 eurosapproximately.

In terms of performance, I think it is quite likely that it will eventually rank between the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Tithat is, it is less powerful than the RX 470. With the Sapphire Radeon RX 6400 PULSE we will be able to play games in 1080p, but we will have to reduce the quality of the graphics and for the most demanding titles the experience will not be good, that’s clear.

Its compact shape, low energy and price could make it happen an interesting option for the installation of small equipment, and also create configurations that aim to move games from previous generations or titles that do not have high requirements. If our goal is to play the latest games smoothly and at a good level, we should look in a different direction.