Thursday, July 29th 2021
AMD Announces Radeon RX 6600 XT Graphics Card
AMD today announced the new Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card, its latest entrant to the RX 6000 series, based on the RDNA2 graphics architecture, with full DirectX 12 Ultimate support, including raytracing. The RX 6600 XT is suitable for AAA gaming at 1080p, or e-sports gaming at 1440p. The card debuts the new 7 nm Navi 23 silicon to the desktop, and maxes it out. It is endowed with 2,048 stream processors across 32 RDNA2 compute units, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 128-bit wide memory interface, holding 8 GB of GDDR6 memory running at 16 Gbps (256 GB/s bandwidth). The chip also has 32 MB of Infinity Cache memory. With a board power of 160 W, the card can make do with a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. The game clocks are up to 2359 MHz.
As for performance, AMD claims that the RX 6600 XT offers a 2.2-2.5 times performance gain over the GeForce GTX 1060, providing a viable upgrade. It also offers a 40% performance uplift over the previous-generation RX 5600 XT, and runs consistently faster than the RX 5700, perhaps even trading blows with the RX 5700 XT. In the current generation, AMD claims a 15% performance lead over the GeForce RTX 3060 on average, with both cards having Resizable BAR / Smart Access Memory enabled, at 1080p. Available from August 10, the card starts at USD $379, and is a partner-exclusive, meaning that only custom-design cards will be available, the company will not sell reference design ones.
As for performance, AMD claims that the RX 6600 XT offers a 2.2-2.5 times performance gain over the GeForce GTX 1060, providing a viable upgrade. It also offers a 40% performance uplift over the previous-generation RX 5600 XT, and runs consistently faster than the RX 5700, perhaps even trading blows with the RX 5700 XT. In the current generation, AMD claims a 15% performance lead over the GeForce RTX 3060 on average, with both cards having Resizable BAR / Smart Access Memory enabled, at 1080p. Available from August 10, the card starts at USD $379, and is a partner-exclusive, meaning that only custom-design cards will be available, the company will not sell reference design ones.
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Good luck trying to beat this 2060 Super score with a 5700 XT...
MSRP of RX 5600 XT = $279, MSRP of RX 6600XT = $379 (+36%)... 4% price to performance ratio increase if AMD words are to be believed.
Charging $379 for 128 bit memory GPU is insulting to us life long AMD buyers.
As a former owner of ATI Rage 128, ATI R9500, ATI HD4870, AMD HD6870, R9 280X, RX 480, Vega 56 all I can say to AMD is: "You're dead to me until you return to the old ways, offering gamers the best value for the money". If AMD doesn't want to do that, I'll have to buy Ngreedia or even go Intel's route if DG2 turns out to be half decent drivers wise and offer better price to performance ratio than green and red team.
@medi01 how it's Nvidia's fault that AMD is milking? You can't spell AMgreeD without AMD.
Bad, baaad AMD! :D
Why did you post that Hitman benchmark though?No, they are not. :DLuckily, there is always that other competitor to buy from. Wanna have some "8k gaming with 3090" or are you rather into "3080 is 2 times faster than 2080" (both are actual claims by DF `:D)`
On a serious note:
1) There is no way supply meets demand any time soon (look at crypto cretin spending)
2) I'd rather AMD/AIBs make money on it, than random shops/scalpers
3) It isn't even remotely as bad as you make it look (formally, it's a bump of perf/$ vs a product that was great value to begin with)
Look at RDNA2 pricing in general, cool, wasn't it? (MSRPs)
Now compare 6600XT to them, still below, ain't it?
It is a major bump up on the performance side of things, well in line with (phenomenally good in the high end) RDNA2 pricing and in a context of GPUs being routinely sold for twice the list price.
You will NOT be able to freely buy this for $380 anyhow, it will sell out instantly.
So what would you rather see, AMD dropping price by another 80 bucks and some random dude eating that profit, or rather having the company that was starving financially for decades and wrecked havoc on GPU/CPU markets in a great way (8 core CPU was $1000 before ryzing, 2080Ti level performance was $1.2k) build a bit of fat / have money to increase R&D spending?
For me it's a no brainer.
However, the 2060 Super can still outclass the 5700 XT, provided it has enough cooling to achieve a substantial overclock. Put a water block on that little card, and it'll be able to handle a +15% overclock. That's just about 2070 Super performance.
Are you OK with 7600XT costing $400? Because that's what you'll be paying for a Polaris replacement in 2022/2023. Doubling of the MSRP price in just 5 years. I know I'm not. I'll rather migrate to XBoX X at that point and use PC only for work.
Plus I don't find RDNA2 pricing "phenomenally good" at all. MSRP prices offers the same value as Ampere lineup. 3060TI and 3080 have still the best MSRP on the market imho. AMD could beat their price to performance ratio by a large margin, but they chose short term gains over market share gain in the long run. For me it was always a no brainer to go with the best value offer and that was almost always AMD GPU (with exception of 1080TI which I own), but now I'd go with 3080 or 3060TI over AMD offerings if dGPUS were selling at MSRPs.
1. Older gens were gddr5 - just look at hynix and samsungs profits - I would guess Gddr6 and other ram prices have gone up quite a bit compared to Gddr5 prices from a few years ago
2. TSMC 7nm is probably charging a premium
3. covid
4. miners/scalpers
5. amd usually follows pricing set by intel/nvidia
6. company markups
7. e-tailer mark ups
8. larger chips as in more transistors for that Ray Tracing that everyone wants
etc etc
Everyone is trying to take advantage and ride the gravy train.
Remember: GTX 960 used to be sub $200 GPU and GTX 980 used to cost $550. If we ignore the current crazy real market prices, the MSRP of x60 series more than doubled from $200 => $400 and same for the x80 series that went form $650 => $1200 ($550 => 700$ for non-Ti). Basically +200$ for both of your mentioned cards in only 5 years. How is that "best MSRP" for you? They were overpriced at launch but you don't mind paying +$200 more, however the +$180 increase in price from R9 380 to 6600XT drives you nuts. Seriously?
Wow!, this gpu is on par with RTX 2080 / 2080 Super!!
OMG AMD take my money!!!!
lol........this should be a $250 gpu.
As always, it somehow will fly of the shelves.
Maybe if people werent buying shit at current prices we might see some different prices, but right now no company, Intel, AMD, Nvidia have any reason to drop their MSRPs, etc.
Meanwhile the Nvidia GPUs are on a voucher system and hardly make it to the shelf.
AMD used to be in the voucher system until they weren't.
You want a $909 before taxes 6700 XT?