Thursday, July 8th 2021

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Arrives this August
AMD is allegedly preparing for an August 2021 debut of its Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card in the retail segment, according to tech YouTuber Coreteks. Released exclusively as custom-design cards, through the company's AIB partners, the card will reportedly come with an MSRP price of USD $399, or roughly $100 less than that of the RX 6700 XT (which is being scalped for north of $800). The lack of a reference-design (MBA) model in the retail channel means that the card will not be sold through the AMD website.
The Radeon RX 6600 XT will reportedly be based on the 7 nm "Navi 23" silicon, although it remains to be seen if it maxes the silicon out. 8 GB will be the standard memory amount, across a 128-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface, cushioned by a 32 MB Infinity Cache. As for performance, Coreteks predicts that the RX 6600 XT will perform ±5% of the RX 5700 XT and the GTX 1080 Ti, which could make it a formidable card for AAA gaming at 1080p, or at 1440p with FSR.
Sources:
Coreteks (YouTube), Moore's Law is Dead (YouTube), VideoCardz
The Radeon RX 6600 XT will reportedly be based on the 7 nm "Navi 23" silicon, although it remains to be seen if it maxes the silicon out. 8 GB will be the standard memory amount, across a 128-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface, cushioned by a 32 MB Infinity Cache. As for performance, Coreteks predicts that the RX 6600 XT will perform ±5% of the RX 5700 XT and the GTX 1080 Ti, which could make it a formidable card for AAA gaming at 1080p, or at 1440p with FSR.
61 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Arrives this August
I don't know why anyone would want to exceed a $450 price point (after taxes) for this model card if it's only going to trade blows with the RTX 3060. I'm still a bit irritated at the $400 range I put down for a 3060....but I will say it has been nice not having to hear my 980Ti fans rev up all the way randomly when using the computer. I would have much rather put an extra $100-150 into a 3060Ti or 3070 or even a 6800 - if I could have found ones that were at their MSRPs.
It's good to see AMD at the Nvidia's level, for the most part, this time around, but it's not good seeing them at a higher price point.
This should be a sub 329USD card. Smaller die size and less complex PCB compared to an RTX 3060.
As to what you mentioned about Intel, I think you are spot on. But even AMD and Nvidia are just there to make. Perhaps AMD at this point is less aggressive out of the 3, but as they grow more and more successful, I feel they will also start charging more, just like they have done with the Zen 3 pricing.
There is zero reliable information about the GPU MSRP in the video, so stop worrying until the GPUs launch ...
At the same time, if you can actually buy the card for under $600, you're fortunate.
We know the current environment is sh*t.
Once/when prices stabilize, the MSRP for the 6600XT will be adjusted to $299 fairly quick. The question is, do you want to wait for half year or not?
The 6700XT is also $100 overpriced. Hopefully the prices for both 6600XT & 6700XT come down to what they are worth. Until then, I don't see these selling as popular as they could.
RedGamingTech also got the same number from his sources. It's either AMD testing the waters by throwing the price tag out in the wild or a leak from the inside. But it looks like they are considering it. I still remember AMD lowering the prices of the 5700(XT) on the day of release. Nothing is set in stone, but they sure wanna milk us as much as they possibly can. Lisa loves her and shareholder's wallets. She has a moto "We love gamers" which more and more translates into "we love obedient milking cows". They're becoming more and more Ngreedia like since RDNA1.
Luckily, since both amd and nvidia are competitive with each other, we will see a reduction in MSRP when the various factors putting pressure in silicon production start to alleviate.
Comparison against the 3060, 3060ti, 5700xt, etc. launch price is useless. We all know that these cards are not being sold at MSRP.
Also, if I may add - it's a little to late to moan about high x60 MSRP in this thread
Remember the $300 1060 FE from 2016? www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060/
Or the $350 2060 FE? www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-founders-edition/
Or maybe the $400 3060 Ti FE? www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-founders-edition/
See the pattern? A lot of people gladly opened their wallets for nVidia, which means that they were ok with the prices. When AMD finally releases the cards, the damage to MSRP is already done. You have to change nVidia buyers mindset to achieve anything, so that nVidia is forced to reduce the prices and then AMD simply follows. Expecting it other way around won't be possible until the market share is balanced ...
AMD and Nvidia are in a position where they can't make enough GPU to fill the market. So they aren't afraid to be undercut and market flooded.
IT still seems that Nvidia is shipping way more Ampere than AMD RDNA2 (and the demand seems to be higher for Nvidia card) but everyone is able to sell their card. AMD seems to focus more on CPU and Consoles and that is their choice.
I would have prefer that AMD took the current situation to release a card like this at a unbeatable price and get as much market share as they want but I suspect that for them they don't see the PC market independly of the Console market. They probably isn't worry to only sell 10-20% of desktop card since they are in every console sold. Not sure if i agree with that but it's their choice.
So this year, no cheap GPU. See you next year maybe.
I was able to get new 3060s at my local computer store for around $600-650 cdn, but skipped that opportunity thinking I might get 3060 Ti soon for a bit more. I wished I had gotten a Gigabyte 3060 for $650 with 3 fan cooler and RGBs.
6600 XT NEEDs a triple cooler design or RGBs, even twin cooler is not adequate, to compute with RTX 3060. If can't compete with 3060 on ray tracing performance, at least you can sell on looks and lower price. Price wise I'm hoping around $500-550 cdn for one when it hits Canadian markets.
Guess I will wait to see what the 6600 goes for and if there will be an 8GB variant..........
www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-5600-xt-pulse/
Here
1 year and a half later, the RX 6600 XT debuts at $400, that's 43% higher pricen gen over gen. For 22% higher performance..........LOL
It should be (percentage of inflation increase if applicable, maybe 2%) and 22% performance increase.
Performance increase should always be higher than price increase(if any).
www.theverge.com/2021/1/13/22228470/nvidia-evga-zotac-raise-prices-rtx-3080-3070-3060-3090