Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 XT Pulse OC

[Shatun_Bear]

@W1zzard I think you guys need to review your conclusion of these cards, specifically the part about MSRP and real prices. In the UK Gibbo said he has had over 1000 units for this launch (comparatively huge numbers compared to other launches) and the price for this card is only £375, still available since last night in multiple quantities. That's actually bang on the MSRP, not a penny more:

Sapphire pulse:
https://www.overclockers.co...

3060 Ti are £650+ up to £800: https://www.overclockers.co...

At those prices, 6600 XT is far better value and your conclusion doesn't sit right. You assumed (we all did) low stock and hugely inflated prices, which is likely wrong.

 

[W1zzard]

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Are those +27c for Hotspot normal? (sorry I'm asking again) It's just that it seems pretty high?

I retested it for you and got a surprising result:

Bottom red is hotspot. Looks like the 98°C number comes from a very short spike in temperature, not from a permanent increase. Not sure if this a reading error or an actual temp increase

 

[Sithaer]

I agree, this card would (average) double the FPS numbers, but the sad thing is: those cards are already 5 years old, and it is expected to cost the same as those cards 5 years ago and not paying (minimum) +50-60% more money for them.

If this card would cost 280$/€ retail as its (5600XT) predecessor did, i would say, ok i'm buying it, but currently it's way overpriced even at MSRP.

Yup, but sadly thats how it is nowadays.

I bought my RX 570 4G in 2018 September on the second hand market but the card was only ~6 months old and still had almost 2 and half years retail warranty in my county so it was in a good condition.
I paid ~180$for it at the time, now I might get double the FPS with a a 5700-3060-6600 XT 'a bit more than double actually but yea', yet I pay more than double the money.

Yesterday for a few hours I saw this Pulse 6600 XT listed on a well known webshop where new stuff usually shows up first.
It was ~566$ but now the price is gone and only a Strix model left for ~780.
In comparison before the prices went up late last year, the Pulse 5600 XT was around 330$ here. '2-3 years warranty'

Second hand market brand new RTX 3060 lowest price is around 660-680$ for the EVGA XC model usually. 'other more premium models cost more'

I'm willing to fork out a maximum of 500$ for a new GPU that I'm gonna use for the next ~3 years but so far nothing affordable in that range where I live.

 

[Mussels]

Here in Au these are listed at $600+
The RTX 3060 is $1100+

I'll let you guys pick the value option

 

[Palindrome]

Trades blows with 2070S/2080 at 1080p and even 1440p, good going for a little card like that.

Also I'm assuming you'll only get the full performance out of it with a PCIe Gen 4 motherboard? Since it's only an x8 card, if it were to run in Gen 3 mode you'd lose quite a lot of performance no?

 

[Mussels]

Trades blows with 2070S/2080 at 1080p and even 1440p, good going for a little card like that.

Also I'm assuming you'll only get the full performance out of it with a PCIe Gen 4 motherboard? Since it's only an x8 card, if it were to run in Gen 3 mode you'd lose quite a lot of performance no?

Been covered, and nah.

8x 3.0 is gunna be under 5%, which is not zero but not a major issue either. The more VRAM a title uses, the more it'll matter.

 

[Palindrome]

Been covered, and nah.

8x 3.0 is gunna be under 5%, which is not zero but not a major issue either. The more VRAM a title uses, the more it'll matter.

Interesting, makes this card even more appealing to me. Cheers.

 

[Xuper]

@W1zzard
Hi , can you confirm this ?

AMD's latest RDNA2 drivers reduce YouTube 4K 60FPS playback power consumption - VideoCardz.com

AMD RX 6600 XT launch drivers reduce power consumption in YouTube playback and for high-refresh monitor setups Readers who had read the most recent Radeon RX 6600 XT review from ComputerBase might have noticed that it was showing relatively low power consumption in certain scenarios for this...

videocardz.com

I checked Video Playback and 6600XT = 11w , 6800xt =50w
can you retest for high-end cards ?

 

[Sabotaged_Enigma]

Are we TPU testing Asus Dual OC model soon as well? Wanting to see how that and this Pulse model compares to each other.