It's basically the same performance as an RX5700 which is really not exciting for a new 400$ card - even if you don't consider that buying it for twice the MSRP will be very unlikely. As for the PCI-e, I wonder how many people building new systems will opt to get such a weak GPU, so it will most likely be a PCIe 3.0 x8 card in most cases, which is more suited to low end and laptop GPUs. Price will probably not come down before mid-late 2022, maybe even 2023, and at this point this performance will really be garbage-tier.
This thing exists only because the die is so tiny they can squeeze a lot of them on a wafer and flood the starved market with "meh" products. Which will, of course, sell, but it's like selling putrescent food during a famine. Hence "meh".
Lets ignore the current price/market situation for a moment.
In that case ppl on a budget would buy this card or cards around this performance level, even if building a brand new system now.
I know I would, I have zero interest in anything high end and always bought budget-entry mid range cards.
After all I'm still using a RX 570 since later 2018 and for the most part I'm doing alright with it so I'm not sure if this performance would be garbage tier in 1-2 years.
'talking about 1080p single player gaming here or E sports'
I have no issues with the performance of 6600 XT nor 3060 for that matter, I have an issue with the prices obviously but otherwise I would easily buy cards in this performance range for the next ~3 years cause I ususally keep my cards for that long.
'my 570 will be 3 years old in 2 months'
The x8 PCIe thing does bother me tho, Doom Eternal showed that it can in fact cause issues in PCIe 3.0 Mobos like mine and who knows how it will react to new games in the next 1-2 year or later, thats a risk I'm not sure I would want to take.
Aretak
And I very much doubt that 2080/2070S-tier performance will be "garbage" at any time during the next couple of years. That's just BS, frankly. Many people will be happy with that degree of power for a long, long time to come.
It doesn't change the fact that it's overpriced and the ray tracing performance sucks, but people can never take a level-headed view of things and have to start spewing nonsense about every facet of the product. It's a pretty good GPU at a pretty bad price point.
Yeah I also wonder this, I guess on tech forums/sites like this some ppl tend to forget that majority of the users are running weaker systems just fine on a daily basis and would be more than happy to even have this kind of performance.
All those ppl still rocking 1060/RX 400-500 serie since their launch day would definitely feel the upgrade and use it for quite some time.
I would also love to upgrade to something in this range but not at these price points thats for sure.
so I replaced the thermal paste to NT-H2 and I'm getting around (64c edge/78-85c hotspot). 
So that might be the issue with that card?
