Monday, September 12th 2022
AMD Radeon RX 6600M on Desktop PCBs Being Sold for $180-ish
With next-generation GPUs around the corner, the market seems to be flooded with ASICs for any board partner willing to buy them and use as they see fit—including building desktop graphics cards with mobile GPUs. Several Chinese board partners are found selling desktop graphics cards based on the mobile Radeon RX 6600M at prices ranging between the equivalent of USD $180 to $214.
The RX 6600M has essentially the same specs as the desktop RX 6600 (non-XT), with 1,792 stream processors across 28 RDNA2 compute units, 8 GB of 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory bus, and similar clock-speeds of 2177 MHz (compared to 2044 MHz of the desktop RX 6600). In fact the RX 6600M has much better typical board power specs of 100 W, compared to 132 W of the desktop RX 6600. The best part of this deal has to be the price. An RX 6600 (non-XT) starts around the $250-mark in the US market. So even with shipping costs added, the $180 RX 6600M comes across as a slightly better deal.
Source:
VideoCardz
The RX 6600M has essentially the same specs as the desktop RX 6600 (non-XT), with 1,792 stream processors across 28 RDNA2 compute units, 8 GB of 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory bus, and similar clock-speeds of 2177 MHz (compared to 2044 MHz of the desktop RX 6600). In fact the RX 6600M has much better typical board power specs of 100 W, compared to 132 W of the desktop RX 6600. The best part of this deal has to be the price. An RX 6600 (non-XT) starts around the $250-mark in the US market. So even with shipping costs added, the $180 RX 6600M comes across as a slightly better deal.
40 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 6600M on Desktop PCBs Being Sold for $180-ish
Edit: simply to find out how much performance is lost to laptop cooling.
If would be half height card it would make sense more at that TBP making it a really good card replacing 750Ti esque users in small form factors.
Issue with at least the mobile versions of the 3070's turned to desktop mods, the mobile drivers apparently don't work for them or you need lodified drivers. Which I wasn't really wanting to spend too much to try and test it. But these are more cheaper.
PS Having said the above, checked Ali for some cards, to see what's going on. Found some crooks based in Turkey and France selling 3900X for 65 euros and 3060Ti for less than 150 euros. 0 positives of course. It's not very difficult to limit the dangers when browsing Ali's pages.
That's how it was with RX460/560 even.
During these times thinking that it is the same die is wrong. They are cherry picked to be mobiles for a reason. They actually might leak more on higher frequencies and consume much more than desktop part.
I highly doubt you do, hence I would expect them to be in much better position than you to know, whether such undervolting is viable to do in bulk or not.
I don't really understand your conundrum either, since, again, you're free to tinker with card you purchased as you see fit. Is needing to connect that extra 6-pin such a chore?
These are binned dies, not different dies, compared to the desktop RX6600.
And I'd rather have 6-pin atx power, than running the risk of melting the pcie slot on the cheap motherboard I would match this cheap gpu with.
2) VRM circuitry is *almost never* near power connectors (what's there is fuses, shunts and monitoring stuff). Controlling power is easier when the VRM is close to whatever's using it.