On the finish of July we noticed AMD launch its Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card, “designed to ship the final word high-framerate, high-fidelity and extremely responsive 1080p gaming expertise.” It has now adopted up with the extensively leaked and predicted Radeon RX 6600 graphics card to “present visually beautiful, high-refresh price 1080p gaming experiences to the midrange market”.
It’s price speaking in regards to the Radeon RX 6600 and XT collectively as they’re constructed upon the identical Navi 23 RDNA2 GPU, however with the brand new cheaper sibling being topic to a couple cuts. The $50 distinction in MSRP when evaluating the Radeon RX 6600 and XT is about 15 per cent, and you’re going to get a proportional discount in streaming processors and texture items at your disposal for the decrease price (although ROPS stay at 64). Nevertheless, this is not all, because the cheaper graphics card has slower GPU enhance, recreation, and reminiscence clocks (14 vs 16Gbps), too.
General, the result’s, as indicated by the AMD quotes within the intro – the brand new Radeon RX 6600 is nice at trendy 1080p gaming at reasonably quick refresh charges (and is described as “future prepared” on this respect).
Trying by means of the oodles of third-party benchmarks and comparisons of latest partner-made Radeon RX 6600 graphics playing cards revealed over latest hours, it turns into fairly clear that the RX 6600 (132W) is an excellent match for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (170W) which has the identical MSRP. As typical, the inexperienced crew product is favoured by sure video games / engines, whereas the crimson crew has its personal highlights, however on stability they’re a reasonably good match. Generally, relying on the sport, the ray tracing efficiency of the brand new AMD card is suitable too, however it is going to typically want a serving to hand from FSR, if obtainable.
Shoppers do not get to benefit from the luxurious of selection as a lot as they used to with graphics playing cards, to say the least, however when you do see the Radeon RX 6600 at an appropriate close to MSRP you is perhaps happy with the efficiency if you’re solely in search of a quick 1080p, or entry-level 1440p, expertise (relying on recreation).
One of many extra pleasing features of the brand new GPU is its energy effectivity. It struts its stuff at 132W, so will imply that it ought to be simple to chill and run quietly. Nevertheless, at the moment it seems like companions have saved growth prices low by recycling RX 6600 XT (160W) designs, so the lineup of companion playing cards is bristling with cumbersome triple and dual-fan examples.
AMD Radeon RX 6600 graphics playing cards are anticipated to be obtainable from AMD board companions together with ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire, XFX and Yeston. I hope yow will discover inventory in your area at an affordable worth, if . Pre-built PCs utilizing these playing cards ought to begin to seem too.
With AMD launching this GPU, there’s renewed chitter-chatter about Nvidia rolling out the GeForce RTX 3050/Ti collection for the desktop. These may include improved VRAM quotas on the desktop too, in accordance with rumours of 6/12GB GDDR6 fashions within the pipeline
