ASUS Radeon RX 6600 XT STRIX OC

[medi01]

This, ladies and gentlemen:

if this was a 100W i would consider. but this? trash.

is a comment made about GPU wish groundbreaking, nothing comes close, perf/$:

 

[Zubasa]

if this was a 100W i would consider. but this? trash. also i want to see pcie 3.0 motherboards numbers. even bigger trash i guess.

In most games its around ~3%
Worst case scenario: This
https://www.techspot.com/review/2305-amd-radeon-rx-6600-xt/

 

[john_]

If MSRP had any meaning today, this should be a $299-$329 card.

 

[HTC]

If MSRP had any meaning today, this should be a $299-$329 card.

If this card were @ that price, then a REFERENCE 6600 non-XT would go for around $219 or so: @ such a price i would probably buy one to replace my aging RX480 4GB.

@ these ridiculous prices, i'll wait for the next generation of cards ...

 

[pokazene_maslo]

Hey @W1zzard, you have a mistake in the second paragraph on first page. You state there that this card has 32 ROPs, while in the rest of the review you mention 64 ROPs. BTW. thank you for a great review!

 

[bug]

I feel that AMD went for 32MB cache was a huge mistake. It went from 96MB on the 6800 and 6700XT all the way down to 1/3.

It's just a cache, even if AMD left the full 96MB in there, it would still overflow in the right scenario.

 

[Chrispy_]

It'll be replaced by F1 2021 when I do my next full rebench, in a couple of weeks

Do you have plans to test this at PCIe 3.0 x8?
That seems to impact performance by ~5% and is relevant for any Intel user who hasn't jumped on Rocket Lake.

 

[W1zzard]

Do you have plans to test this at PCIe 3.0 x8?

Might be worth a separate article

 

[Valantar]

I feel that AMD went for 32MB cache was a huge mistake. It went from 96MB on the 6800 and 6700XT all the way down to 1/3.

Why, when performance is what it is? Outside of 2160p gaming, which this GPU isn't reasonably capable of anyhow, the IC seems perfectly adequate.

 

[gasolina]

a mid end card and pcie4 8x really nice to force mid range user to have the crappy pcie 4.0 which is very short lived ...... stay away from sub 500$ graphic card is kinda a standard nowsaday since they offer really no value at all ( i'm saying about msrp price though )

 

[Pumper]

Not surprised at how bad the performance/dollar is, after all, AMD does not have the ability to grow their revenue by selling more stuff (they are already at max. supply), so the only way to keep the stock holders happy is to fleece the customer by selling overpriced trash in a seller's market. Way to fuck over all the people who where keeping the company afloat for all those years when AMD did not have any competetive products.

 

[Operandi]

and that's why I'm listing MSRP but also street price and talk about both in conclusion.

Does an MSRP have any correlation to what AMD (or any other manufacture for that matter) sell the raw GPU for?

I mean prices are obviously still insane but if MSRP represents a price floor for cards and this is AMD taking more profit at the expense of resellers and scalpers then I get why they are doing it as the market is ultimately going set the real price regardless of what MSRP is. If supply is still super constrained a lower MSRP would just be AMD or nVidia leaving money on the table which would just be foolish on their part.

I have no idea if thats how it works or not but kinda devils advocate argument. Either way I'm not sure pointing the finger any MSRPs right now makes any sense until there is real supply to support competitive prices, they should defiantly be in the review though for historical purposes.

 

[W1zzard]

Either way I'm not sure pointing the finger any MSRPs right now makes any sense until there is real supply to support competitive prices, they should defiantly be in the review though for historical purposes.

Agreed, that's what I'm doing

AMD

I have no idea how they decided on their pricing, I suspect they looked at NVIDIA's 3060 and 3060 Ti MSRP, looked where their card is in perf relative to that, and set a price point that looks nice as number

 

[Solid State Soul ( SSS )]

8Gb is cool for 380$ but 128 bit bus ...eh... am not sure.

also why 8 phase design for a 165w TDP ?

My 980Ti is a 250w and is comfortably powered by a 6 phase design, why is this trend of over specing AMD boards but stick to refrence for Nvidia ?

 

[london]

No problem just donwvolt it to its Furmakr clocks 2233 @0.966V and that results sub 100Watt for games at 7% performance loss, almost nonexistent, much like the card because of miners.
RTX 2080 at 1080p, 2070 super at 1440p, and better not think of 4K. RTX 2070 wow the peformance hit is very sour.

is not my job to fix this shity overpriced crap,

 

[MrDweezil]

Hypothetically, if AMD set MSRP for these at $1 and Asus priced their fancy STRIX version at $2, wouldn't these still end up selling for $600+?

 

[RedelZaVedno]

ASUS RX 6600 XT STRIX OC MSPR = $500 /Street price = 700$? OMG! Polaris and 5600XT replacement for 230% more???
It's DOA. Poor retailers, cleaning all the dust off these cards will be tedious work.

 

[Operandi]

ASUS RX 6600 XT STRIX OC MSPR = $500 /Street price = 700$? OMG! Polaris and 5600XT replacement for 230% more???
It's DOA. Poor retailers, cleaning all the dust off these cards will be tedious work.

Not how it works at all dude. Street price is not some % of MSRP, supply & demand sets the price MSRP has zero impact whatsoever. AMD is going to sell every one of these they make; anytime, in any market where the real price, street price whatever you want to call it is higher than the retail price shit is selling out.

 

[RedelZaVedno]

Not how it works at all dude. Street price is not some % of MSRP, supply & demand sets the price MSRP has zero impact whatsoever. AMD is going to sell every one of these they make; anytime, in any market where the real price, street price whatever you want to call it is higher than the retail price shit is selling out.

Well maybe elsewhere they do, but not in Germany. My neighbor and his wife work at Mindfactory, largest German retailer and they're saying Amperes are flying off shelves like crazy despite inflated prices, but Radeons are collecting dust now that 3060(TI), 3070(TI) and 3080TI are in stock again. The problem Mindfactory is having it that it can't lower prices on RDNA2 GPUs because they themselves bought them either directly from AIBs or from distributers at highly inflated prices. But they both said they'll have to bite in the bitter apple and lower prices until the end of the fiscal year if mining craze doesn't return.

 

[kruk]

Ouch, worse than a 3060Ti for the same money. No wonder AMD is trying to keep the reviews from coming out. Man, can you just image the backlash if nVidia was telling reviewers they can only release nVidia sanctioned reviews? The torches and pitchforks would be sold out just like graphics cards.

AMD is trying to keep the reviews from coming out? Any proof for this or is it just FUD? They don't even have a reference card and their MSRP is clearly far far away from the pricing of this card (which simply looks like a cashgrab by ASUS).

 

[N3M3515]

The generation-over-generation performance improvement, compared to RX 5600 XT, is an impressive 35%

You forgot the most important metric, generation-over-generation price icrease, compared to RX 5600 XT, is an impresive 35% LOL!! (35% minus 35% = zero improvement)
This is not an upgrade over the RX 5600 XT at all. At most this is a side grade over the RX 5700 XT.

 

[neatfeatguy]

I'm glad I was able to snag a 3060Ti a few days ago for $460. I'm going to move my 3060 to my other computer and officially retire both my 980Ti cards. I was contemplating the idea of trying to get a 6600XT since it was supposed to be 15% faster than a 3060 and have a similar price, but after seeing the review I'm glad I took the win off a newegg shuffle for a 3060Ti last Friday.

With the nearly $900 retail cost for 6700XT cards, plus the fact you can still find 5700XT cards in the $550 range, I'd venture to guess a lot of the 6600XT cards are going to be in the $600-700 range for AIB. Only the AMD released version of the 6600XT will ever be at the MSRP that's advertised.

I wouldn't spend my money on a 6600XT unless it was trading blows with 3060Ti and was priced the same - around $400.

 

[btk2k2]

You forgot the most important metric, generation-over-generation price icrease, compared to RX 5600 XT, is an impresive 35% LOL!! (35% minus 35% = zero improvement)
This is not an upgrade over the RX 5600 XT at all. At most this is a side grade over the RX 5700 XT.

If you have a 5700XT then you could sell it for a lot more than the 6600XT and even 6700XT sells for and do a side/upgrade and get some money on top.

If you are upgrading and sell old hardware then the price is really the delta between current and new which is probably somewhat favourable for 6xxx series hardware because it is comparatively rubbish at mining.

 

[Chrispy_]

Might be worth a separate article

HWU touched on it very lightly - some 3-5% difference in some games and huge performance penalty in Doom Eternal (which was the game that made me upgrade from the 6GB 2060 I had at the time).
I'd definitely be interested in a more in-depth look at that.

If you have a 5700XT then you could sell it for a lot more than the 6600XT and even 6700XT sells for and do a side/upgrade and get some money on top.

No longer true.

As someone with multiple mining rigs of 5700-series and looking to acquire more cards, the going rate on ebay etc is not what it once was. I sold some 5700XT cards that I didn't have motherboards for at almost £1000/$1400 each in May, and have picked up some vanilla 5700 cards for <£400 each in the last week. 5700XT cards listed at £500-550 aren't selling and get relisted lower by the week so they're worth less than half what they were four months ago.

 

[_Flare]

As is said in the last weeks:
There is no way it will be cheaper than the RTX 2060 6GB wich start at 450,-€ incl Shipping here in Germany.
And i also said it will likely cost at least as much as the next RT cappable card above that, wich shuffle between 2060S 2070 and 3060 here, the cheapest of those begin at 560,-€ incl Shipping here.
So i am not suprised in any kind by the sad status quo, induced by mining and scalpers wich are responsible at least 99% for the status quo.