AMD Radeon RX 6600

[Jism]

50% faster with a lower overall TDP compared to a RX580. Just that pricing lol.

 

[Dristun]

The launch has been total garbage in Russia, way worse than 6600XT. Even the only big retailer that actually launched 6600XT at exactly MSRP back in August decided to take the piss and priced the available 4 models above what 6600XT cost at launch 2 months ago. Everywhere else the card has started at 750USD and now even those are gone, current prices are 800+.
The only thing stopping me from just buying a PS5 or (preferably) a Series X and forgetting about all this for a few years is that they're also consistently out of stock at places that sell them without markups.

 

[cellar door]

It didn't. Quite the opposite. Die salvaging is certainly a valid point but at the end of the day, you whining that people shouldn't complain about pricing because that's just the way it is, misses the point that there were people who bought the competition's cards at MSRP (for which there is no equivalent opportunity for this card) and for those of us who did, of course we're going to compare buying this as a potential 'upgrade' vs what we actually spent, not what we would spend if we had no GPU. Same reason many 1660S / 1070 / 1080 / 1080Ti owners are in no rush to upgrade here when the "budget GPU" value just isn't there vs holding until things cool down. At the end of the day, comparing 2019 vs 2021 prices is entirely valid for someone who paid 2019 prices and is ultimately deciding "Do I spend hundreds upgrading or keep my 2019 card" for the sake of just 30% fps, more than they are deciding "Do I buy a RX6600 vs RTX3600"?


Ironically, I thought the same thing reading your "Everyone who criticises overpriced budget GPU's must buy an $1100 iPhone" strawman.

It didn't. Quite the opposite. Die salvaging is certainly a valid point but at the end of the day, you whining that people shouldn't complain about pricing because that's just the way it is, misses the point that there were people who bought the competition's cards at MSRP (for which there is no equivalent opportunity for this card) and for those of us who did, of course we're going to compare buying this as a potential 'upgrade' vs what we actually spent, not what we would spend if we had no GPU. Same reason many 1660S / 1070 / 1080 / 1080Ti owners are in no rush to upgrade here when the "budget GPU" value just isn't there vs holding until things cool down. At the end of the day, comparing 2019 vs 2021 prices is entirely valid for someone who paid 2019 prices and is ultimately deciding "Do I spend hundreds upgrading or keep my 2019 card" for the sake of just 30% fps, more than they are deciding "Do I buy a RX6600 vs RTX3600"?


Ironically, I thought the same thing reading your "Everyone who criticises overpriced budget GPU's must buy an $1100 iPhone" strawman.

It seems that the current economic situation in the world is something you are not very familiar with - and frankly, I fear that if you don't understand by now the major supply chain issues ranging from the chips to raw material like basic copper, and cascading all the way down to individual components, followed by huge bottlenecks in every major port in the world at the moment - then you are doing yourself a disservice by not keeping up. And it doesn't matter how logically one could explain... it would simply fall on deaf ears, follow by loosely coherent reply about 1660 owners and previous prices - which simply is irrelevant right now.

But alas, you are welcome to an opinion but at the same time I'm gonna peace out of this discussion.

My comment stands: "Old man yelling at cloud"

 

[Richards]

Hmm .. your comment made me curious and I looked at the charts just for you: Days Gone is clearly NVIDIA-friendly, Deathloop and F1 2021 is mostly balanced, Far Cry 6 actually seems pro-NVIDIA, Resident Evil favors AMD. Seems like a reasonable mix? I really don't look at games like this, I add interesting, important new games, do try to cover all the major game engines.

and I'm always open to suggestions for benchmarks, games, anything

I would suggest adding.. jedi fallen order and project cars

 

[Roboyt0]

@W1zzard

Any plans to add Diablo II Resurrected to the game test list? I was quite surprised at how much stress it puts on my 2080 Ti.

 

[W1zzard]

I would suggest adding.. jedi fallen order and project cars

Jedi fallen order uses ea denuvo, 5 gpu changes per 24 hours, makes my life super difficult. I had project cars 3 but dropped it. Fairly cpu limited, also not that popular

and since its dx11 and cpu limited it insanely favors Nvidia at lower res due to their lower driver overhead

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio Review

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio has the best cooler out of all RX 6800 XT cards we've reviewed so far. With just 67°C, this triple-slot, triple-fan design runs extremely cool, yet stays very quiet at the same time. As expected, idle fan stop is included, too.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[DonKnotts]

In two years, both of these cards (3060 and 6600) will be irrelevant for new games with RT

That's what logic would tell us, but we're living in an age where Nvidia is about to re-release the 2060 nearly two and a half years after it's initial release.

This card is just more of the same for this entire generation, overpriced for what you're getting. A 1080p card should not be considered "mid-range" still after all these years, and it definitely shouldn't be a mid-range priced card.

 

[Nihilus]

What a sad state for PC gamers, especially those new to the hobby. Even at MSRP, you can almost get a Series S at this price.

Perhaps we will see a $250 range product in the form of an RX 6500 running 1300 - 1500 CUs on a 96 bit bus and 6 GB Vram.

The above card should still manage 1660ti levels of performance and be even less susceptible to miner markup.

 

[NC37]

Absolutely reprehensible to sell a $200 card like this for over $600.

 

[seth1911]

Series S 280€
A GPU with similar performance 320€

 

[mb194dc]

Slower than an unlocked 5600xt by the look of it...

 

[ModEl4]

The msrp is a joke, it should have been $299 at most, $349 5700 is 6% better at QHD with 6% higher price, so after 2Y+1Q you get the same performance/$, if we compare it with a 5600XT we actually have regression in performance/$ (calculated with $5/GB, if you prefer to calculate with let's say $10/GB in order not to conclude regression in relation with 5600XT, just compare it with 3060 which at the same price is 10% faster in QHD and also $40 cheaper with a $10/GB assumption) I'm really curious to see Alder lake KF performance & pricing because there is strong chance ryzen 5000 series current pricing to seem like a joke also in one month...

 

[medi01]

Whoa, am I reading it right: the 3060 which is barely faster at 1080p consumes 1.5 times more energy than 6600?

all its extra features like RT

All that single feature also known as "it will cripple your FPS" that most users keep off for some reasons, how silly of buyers not to see it.

The amd sponsored tiles are skuing your benchmarks.. rx 6800 xt is not faster than a 3080 plus rx 6900 xt is way to close to a 3090.. the games you added are amd hardware friendly.. just my thoughts

Commenting on an article with Control in it, chuckle.

 

[kruk]

B) This is not a normal market. MSRP will return eventually. It has before, it will again.

Maybe ... or maybe I'm right:

a) 3DCenter.org: major German retailers availability increasing, but prices still going up

b) A super wild rumor by MooreLawIsDead that nVidia is intentionally halting production to keep the prices up (he claims he has multiple sources ...):

Sad times ahead

 

[roadie]

I've ordered the PowerColor Hellhound version of this card to replace my ASUS Strix RX 480. I was undecided between that card and the Sapphire Pulse version, but that went out of stock extremely quickly, likely because it was £300 instead of £330. With the state of the market for graphics cards at the moment I am hoping to sell my RX480 for a reasonable price to minimise the cost to change.

Obviously this card is gimped compared to the 6600XT, which in hindsight would have been a better purchase when under £400. However, the 6600 should be a decent step up in performance compared to my RX480 at 1080p and will be more power efficient on (dual monitor) desktop and when gaming. For reference my RX 480 was £220 in April 2017.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-rx-480-strix-oc/

Following the sale of my RX 480 the cost to upgrade to my RX 6600 was only £80. It is utterly peverse that this should be the case, but I am happy and so is a miner.

Comparatively the RX 6600 is a big improvement. Power consumption is down 20W at (dual monitor) desktop and the card draws barely over 100W during PUBG at 1080p with much higher framerates.

 

[brunomalavolta]

Hello, friends,

here in Brazil, I sold my RX 580 for 455 dollars and bought an RX 6600 for 660 dollars. I wonder if did I make a good trade. I also could buy a used RTX 2060 for 553 dollars. I wonder if should i cancel my purchase since my objective is to play at 1440 -- I have a 4k monitor. Could you help me to decide what to do? It will surely be annoying to do so, so I ask myself if the fact that this card is made for 1080 will impact that much in my gaming experience. Thanks!

 

[W1zzard]

Hello, friends,

here in Brazil, I sold my RX 580 for 455 dollars and bought an RX 6600 for 660 dollars. I wonder if did I make a good trade. I also could buy a used RTX 2060 for 553 dollars. I wonder if should i cancel my purchase since my objective is to play at 1440 -- I have a 4k monitor. Could you help me to decide what to do? It will surely be annoying to do so, so I ask myself if the fact that this card is made for 1080 will impact that much in my gaming experience. Thanks!

Use the price/performance chart as basis, divide the score of each of those 3 cards by our price, multiply by your price, compare the results

 

[Tetras]

Hello, friends,

here in Brazil, I sold my RX 580 for 455 dollars and bought an RX 6600 for 660 dollars. I wonder if did I make a good trade. I also could buy a used RTX 2060 for 553 dollars. I wonder if should i cancel my purchase since my objective is to play at 1440 -- I have a 4k monitor. Could you help me to decide what to do? It will surely be annoying to do so, so I ask myself if the fact that this card is made for 1080 will impact that much in my gaming experience. Thanks!

The RX 580 would surely be out of warranty, so 205 dollars for a much faster card and a 2 year warranty seems a worthwhile upgrade to me. I would not buy a used RTX 2060 from a new RX 6600.

 

[brunomalavolta]

Thank you, guys. After all, I think I made a great deal. By the way, for curiosity, userbenchmark.com says that RX 6600 is approximately 35% faster than 3060 in render. Does it mean that it's more efficient to programs such as Adobe Premiere etc.?

 

[Criplgamer]

I have a RX6600. Gigabyte Eagle 3 fan model.
Card runs cool.
Drivers need some work.
Great frame rates on a FreeSync monitor and then some.

Rx5600xt performance and then some without the 5600xt crypto craze price!
Decent card to mine with 30mh @80 watts or so.

Card should be selling for $225
It's a 1660ti with no DLSS.

Oh the 1660ti gets 35Mh by the way with tuning....

If you can find a Rx590 fat boy, it will run blow for blow, and that's a old card. The 5600xt runs neck and neck as well just epic black screen problems.

Ray tracing ? Who needs that in 2021? We want cheap money printers. I mean gaming GPUs.

Also glad to he here I mine and game. Get over it. Don't be ignorant and leave money on the table people at 37yr old like me you will wish you had let that $2k computer mine in your sleep making you passive income .

Don't let your passions keep you broke . Those passions often include misguided ideas that in the long run won't do anything but keep you a wage slave.

Anyway... Carry on..

Again. The Rx6600 is worth $250 max in my book. Doesn't OC well at all, memory is bottom barrel, BUT it games well. For about the next 2 years. Then it's a 1050ti that is overpriced.

The RX 580 would surely be out of warranty, so 205 dollars for a much faster card and a 2 year warranty seems a worthwhile upgrade to me. I would not buy a used RTX 2060 from a new RX 6600.

Buy the 2060. If your 580 was an 8GB model you made a sideways move other than lower frame times.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Maybe ... or maybe I'm right:

a) 3DCenter.org: major German retailers availability increasing, but prices still going up

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b) A super wild rumor by MooreLawIsDead that nVidia is intentionally halting production to keep the prices up (he claims he has multiple sources ...):

Sad times ahead

Increasing prices during a still screwed market doesnt mean that normal markets will never exist again. GPUs are far from the only thing that isnt getting moved right now, we have to wait for the supply chain to un fuck itself first. THEN prices will fall. The endless buying at over double MSRP is not sustainable and everybody involved knows this.

MLiD is about as reliable as wet tissue paper. The dude makes outlandish claims constantly, and nvidia cutting supply when they are printing money hand over fist is just plain silly. No company works this way.

 

[ne-jx]

I have replaced rx 580 8gb with rx 6600 eagle, i have problem that in all games this card core clock is swinging, that cause alot of stuttering, with rx580 i didnt have this problems. i set in afterburner 1410mhz and this was it.

with rx 6600 in afterburner is automatic on 2614mhz. in games this clocks are swinging a lot, allooooottt damn.

i have i5 8500 which is now on 100% usage in games. like, every game. is that cpu bottleneck?

 

[Tetras]

I have replaced rx 580 8gb with rx 6600 eagle, i have problem that in all games this card core clock is swinging, that cause alot of stuttering, with rx580 i didnt have this problems. i set in afterburner 1410mhz and this was it.

with rx 6600 in afterburner is automatic on 2614mhz. in games this clocks are swinging a lot, allooooottt damn.

i have i5 8500 which is now on 100% usage in games. like, every game. is that cpu bottleneck?

I'd run a benchmark like 3D Mark and compare your scores with other 6600 users. Did you reinstall the drivers or just plug it in?

 

[ne-jx]

I'd run a benchmark like 3D Mark and compare your scores with other 6600 users. Did you reinstall the drivers or just plug it in?

i did update the drivers, screen is 1440p.

 

[tussinman]

Why GTX1080ti is it no longer included in the reviews, given the state of the video card market, the card still up to date?

You can normally just compare it to whatever the modern equavalent is, really no difference (EX: 1080 owners can just look and see what the 2060 scored, 1080ti can just look at a 3060 and add about 5% to that).