Asus and MSI have started using Micron GDDR6 on 6600 XT

[RidiculousOwO]

Month ago I saw somebody bought a MSI 6600 XT but with Micron GDDR6 VRAM and I've been worrying since then.
Now I got my own Strix OC. AND it is Micron vram...
I'm disappointed. Micron GDDR6's capability is far behind Samsung's. It can't overclock as much, and it doesn't perform any better than it's not overclocked.
What's even worse though, is that simply switching it to fast timing (at default 2000 MHz) would cause the card to crash.
What garbage...

Btw, my 6600 XT doesn't work well with Euro Truck Simulator 2. I have to turn off Shadow Quality so that I can play the game. When shadow is low, mid, or high, it freezes and then game crashes. Anyone knows the solution?

2021.12 out of factory

 

[eidairaman1]

That game is nearly 10 years old, no wonder you have problems.

Report to game dev for a patch and do a report to amd for driver

I had to run WMP in background just to Play Motocross Madness 2 and Deus EX on a Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

I was wondering if that's why my RX 5600 XT seemed to not OC much and randomly cause "Cache Hierarchy Error" WHEAs. (only when VRAM OC'ed) (Never got a WHEA error with "SCLK" being unstable.)
(albeit mine is a generation before the RX 6000 series, because they are unobtanium!)

But, that was before it got bricked.

And, AMD's Radeon team, apparently don't want to play ball as a competitor to the GeForce GTX 1650! Soo bummed! Looks like Nvidia's going to spank the Radeon team!

But, that was before it got bricked.

If I could still get that custom VBIOS on there, I could get the SCLK to 1.9 Ghz and possibly 2.0 at only 1137 mV! The core wasn't what sucked. What happened was that I flashed back, because I was getting WHEAs that turned out to just be the VRAM settings. But, I panicked and flashed the stock VBIOS and months later, couldn't redownload it after I realized that I probably somehow deleted the custom VBIOS from one of my USB sticks!

 

[RidiculousOwO]

Update: I just got message from other gamers that they've got a Sapphire Pulse OC with Micron VRAM, a new patch.
Seems like there's a lack of Samsung VRAM???

@eidairaman1 Hey bro, I've got my eyes on a Sapphire Pulse OC that automatically overclocks to 2707 MHz by the Adrenaline driver. Is that good binning? I remember you telling me that Sapphire Pulse is different from those of Asus Dual.
I just hope I can finally get a nice overclocking card.

 

[eidairaman1]

Update: I just got message from other games that they've got a Sapphire Pulse OC with Micron VRAM, a new patch.
Seems like there's a lack of Samsung VRAM???

@eidairaman1 Hey bro, I've got my eyes on a Sapphire Pulse OC that automatically overclocks to 2707 MHz by the Adrenaline driver. Is that good binning? I remember you telling me that Sapphire Pulse is different from those of Asus Dual.
I just hope I can finally get a nice overclocking card.

I would say the Pulses are better, however Sapphire's Best are Toxic/VaporX. So a Nitro might be a viable option besides pulse

 

[RidiculousOwO]

I would say the Pulses are better, however Sapphire's Best are Toxic/VaporX. So a Nitro might be a viable option besides pulse

Absolutely. I want to know whether driver oc to 2707 MHz means good binning. I don't have many samples so I want to hear your idea.
Could there be a situation that driver overclocks it to a very high frequency like 2750 MHz and yet the card crashes in real games or applications? Is that driver oc worth referring to?
If that's a probable guarantee for good binning, I would give it a try. Thanks.

 

[eidairaman1]

Absolutely. I want to know whether driver oc to 2707 MHz means good binning. I don't have many samples so I want to hear your idea.
Could there be a situation that driver overclocks it to a very high frequency like 2750 MHz and yet the card crashes in real games or applications? Is that driver oc worth referring to?
If that's a probable guarantee for good binning, I would give it a try. Thanks.

That really means nothing, overclocking is random, some require less volts, others require more.