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.
62 Comments on AMD Announces Radeon RX 6600 XT Graphics Card
The 3060 is on par with the 5700XT (according to TPU benchmark results of the 3060) . So, does the 6600XT perform 15% faster than the 3060 or is it on par with the 3060? Which one is it, AMD, because it can't be both?
AMD FineWine seems to work even with RDNA.
There clearly IS demand spike, right?
Things are working as intended and I'm not buying "customers are screwed" one bit.
And don't blame it on crypto idiocy, it has stated way before that, not later than when $1200 for a 2080Ti was "good deal" and even 3090 at $1.5k was touted as good value" chuckle, by certain reviewers out there somewhere (hint: "8k gaming with 3090")
1060 was also a $300 card at release. And yes, you got it for less later on, thanks to AMD.
Understandably, AMD is leaving "make things cheaper for die hard green fans" business.
How can this card be priced the same as 3060 ti, wetefek...
New price is remind me the proverb "As you sow so shall you reap". The PCMR sow the seed of higher price and ignored the cheaper option, now it is time for them to reap the higher price.
AMD's excuse is that memory prices have doubled over the time.
Heck, but why bother even today???
Even today, it is sandwitched by 12GB 6700XT ($480) and 16GB 6800 (non XT) ($580)
Remember the "nvidia is in trouble" title? Yeah, those were the cards it was about.
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Another valid message (vs 3060)