oxrufiioxoIt also launched at a laughably bad msrp of 329 usd with AMD flooding the market with too many of them which contributed to them tanking in price

I don't care how the price ended up what it was, just that it was a good deal for consumers for a year or two.
The RX570 and RX580 also flooded the market, having been overproduced during the Bitcoin mining rush.

Both the 570/580 generation and RX6600 ended up being fantastic value, very competent 1080p GPUs of their day, and that was the last time the entry level market segment wasn't getting served lukewarm, overpriced, problematic GPUs with a list of caveats.

dgianstefaniThe RTX 3060 was also a 12 GB card, which made it more attractive for mining, the RX 6600 8 GB likely sold closer to MSRP even during the time of inflated MSRP because it wasn't a great mining card. At that point in time 8 GB cards like RX 480 were still popular for mining, but they had been out for a while, had already recouped the card investment, and for new cards miners were seeking higher VRAM models because that's where the requirements were going.

I was talking about post-mining. The 6600 wasn't a good mining GPU, period - barely 1/3rd the hashrate of the old RX 5700 at "$349 MSRP" (LOL). It was just expensive because during that ETH mining rush, all GPUs (whether they were for mining or not) were being scalped horrendously because scalpers will pop out of the woodwork whenever there's more demand than supply.

Chrispy_The last time there was a truly compelling low-end card was the RX 6600 8GB.

It launched during the ETH mining rush when MSRPs were stupid and street prices were even more stupid, but once all of that blew over, it settled at a reasonable $200 for an 8GB card that wasn't far off the performance of a 3060 that was selling for ~$300 or more. Haters would say that its RT performance was much worse than the 3060's but IMO that was irrelevant because the RT performance of the 3060 was so bad you couldn't really use it anyway.

a great card was the gtx1660ti. it would have been “legendary” if it had 8GiB RAM.
it gave the impression (felling) that it was faster in games and desktop than a 2070, or even a 2080. (measurement states than the 2080 is faster, but 1660ti had the “feels” for being faster. (both “died” in watercooling accidents, one because of the water block, 2080, the other because of the “ Rube Goldberg-ian” solution of mine, watercooling the 1660ti.

redeyea great card was the gtx1660ti. it would have been “legendary” if it had 8GiB RAM.
it gave the impression (felling) that it was faster in games and desktop than a 2070, or even a 2080. (measurement states than the 2080 is faster, but 1660ti had the “feels” for being faster. (both “died” in watercooling accidents, one because of the water block, 2080, the other because of the “ Rube Goldberg-ian” solution of mine, watercooling the 1660ti.

I don't ever remember it being a good deal.

Unless the street price dropped dramatically at some point, it was always bad value relative to other things. It had the same performance/$ as the overpriced 2060 6GB, but it lacked the 2060's RTX feature set. The whole 20-series was bad value and the 1660Ti was actually worse, by being the same cost/frame with missing features.

If it ever became price-competitive with other offerings, then yeah - it would have been worth buying but it always seemed to be overpriced here in Europe.

redeyea great card was the gtx1660ti. it would have been “legendary” if it had 8GiB RAM.
it gave the impression (felling) that it was faster in games and desktop than a 2070, or even a 2080. (measurement states than the 2080 is faster, but 1660ti had the “feels” for being faster. (both “died” in watercooling accidents, one because of the water block, 2080, the other because of the “ Rube Goldberg-ian” solution of mine, watercooling the 1660ti.

I was a fan of the 8 GB 2060 Super refresh. Seemed like a great deal for an 8 GB NVIDIA card at the time, and still holds up even today for 1080p, considering it has compatibility with DLSS transformer. Obviously the 12 GB 3060 held up even better, but for it's time the 2060S was a nice buy that got you into DLSS and the RTX ecosystem.

dgianstefaniI was a fan of the 8 GB 2060 Super refresh. Seemed like a great deal for an 8 GB NVIDIA card at the time, and still holds up even today for 1080p, considering it has compatibility with DLSS transformer. Obviously the 12 GB 3060 held up even better, but for it's time the 2060S was a nice buy that got you into DLSS and the RTX ecosystem.

I mean it was a 400 usd and DLSS took a generation to get decent but yeah otherwise it was solid.

The pandemic/Mining shortages are what screwed over the 3060 at it's msrp it would have been solid enough especially considering it's the only entry level ish nvidia gpu with more than 8GB of vram ever.


The other reason Nvidia could be winding down the 5060/5060ti is becuase they will get super varients with 12GB of vram.

Nvidia cards tends to sell well regardless due to how many prebuilts carry them so sales overall are likely not the culprit even if the card isn't doing great in the diy segments that is peanuts compared to the rest of the market.

The 8gig cards aren't selling well??? My surprise is off the charts.

Hopefully this is prepping for a 3gb GDDR module Super refresh so the bottom of the stack starts with 12GB and goes up from there (for the same price... of course!).

I know it's dreaming, but let me dream...

Not surprising, but most of these 8GB cards likely go to OEM prebuilts anyway, OEM systems and SI's selling to game cafe's has a lot of influence on the steam hardware survey.
The funny thing is high end Nvidia users simping for 8GB cards who have no idea what it's like to run out of VRAM.

Hecate91The funny thing is high end Nvidia users simping for 8GB cards who have no idea what it's like to run out of VRAM.

Quite the assumptions you've made there.

That million dollar dinner(?) paid for itself many times over! First lifting the embargo on China exports & of course intentionally limiting GPU's to normal/retail consumers, if anyone is surprised even a little bit I guess they must've been asleep over at least the last 4-5 decades when corporations started replacing kings or emperors as our new overlords :shadedshu:

Well this is the reason why Nvidia has to limit GPU supply

NVIDIA’s Discrete GPU Market Share Swells To 94%, AMD Drops To 6% In Q2 2025, 27% Increase In AIB Shipments

Cheap GPU for people who don't care about graphics, premium GPU for people who care about graphics, Nvidia just caters to all type of gamers :D