At the end of July we saw AMD release its Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card, “created to provide the supreme high-framerate, high-fidelity and extremely responsive 1080p video gaming experience.” It has actually now followed up with the commonly dripped and forecasted Radeon RX 6600 graphics card to “offer aesthetically spectacular, high-refresh rate 1080p video gaming experiences to the midrange market”.
It deserves discussing the Radeon RX 6600 and XT together as they are built on the very same Navi 23 RDNA2 GPU, however with the brand-new less expensive brother or sister going through a couple of cuts. The $50 distinction in MSRP when comparing the Radeon RX 6600 and XT has to do with 15 percent, and you will get a proportional decrease in streaming processors and texture systems available for the lower cost (though ROPS stay at 64). This isn't all, as the less expensive graphics card has slower GPU increase, video game, and memory clocks (14 vs 16Gbps), too.
In general, the outcome is, as shown by the AMD quotes in the introduction– the brand-new Radeon RX 6600 is terrific at modern-day 1080p video gaming at reasonably quick refresh rates (and is referred to as “future prepared” in this regard).
Browsing the heaps of third-party standards and contrasts of brand-new partner-made Radeon RX 6600 graphics cards released over current hours, it ends up being rather clear that the RX 6600 (132W) is an excellent match for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 (170W) which has the very same MSRP. As typical, the green group item is favoured by particular video games/ engines, while the red group has its own highlights, however on balance they are a respectable match. In some cases, depending upon the video game, the ray tracing efficiency of the brand-new AMD card is appropriate too, however it will frequently require an assisting hand from FSR, if readily available.
Customers do not get to delight in the high-end of option as much as they utilized to with graphics cards, to state the least, however if you do see the Radeon RX 6600 at an appropriate near MSRP you may be pleased with the efficiency if you are just trying to find a quick 1080p, or entry-level 1440p, experience (depending upon video game).
Among the more pleasing elements of the brand-new GPU is its power effectiveness. It struts its things at 132W, so will indicate that it needs to be simple to cool and run silently. At this time it looks like partners have actually kept advancement expenses low by recycling RX 6600 XT (160W) styles, so the lineup of partner cards is bristling with large triple and dual-fan examples.
AMD Radeon RX 6600 graphics cards are anticipated to be offered from AMD board partners consisting of ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire, XFX and Yeston. I hope you can discover stock in your area at a sensible rate, if interested. Pre-built PCs utilizing these cards ought to begin to appear too.
