Introduction

ASRock Radeon RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D is the company's top custom-design RX 6600 XT offering. Debuted last week, the RX 6600 XT is designed to bring the full DirectX 12 Ultimate-compliant feature set of the AMD RDNA 2 architecture to the vast majority of gamers who still play at Full HD (1080p) resolution. It's designed to offer AAA gameplay at high-to-maximum settings, as well as esports gameplay at high frame rates. Real-time raytracing gameplay at 1080p is also possible, and you can leverage FidelityFX Supersampling (FSR) to improve performance with minimal costs to image quality.



The RX 6600 XT debuts the tiny new 7 nm Navi 23 silicon to the desktop space, and maxes it out. All 2,048 stream processors spread across 32 RDNA 2 compute units, 32 Ray Accelerators, 128 TMUs, and 64 ROPs are enabled. 8 GB is the standard memory size for the RX 6600 XT. This is, however, a 128-bit wide GDDR6 memory bus. AMD attempted to bolster this by opting for faster 16 Gbps memory chips and deploying 32 MB of Infinity Cache on-die memory, which cushions the memory sub-system.

The ASRock RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D is designed to not only get the most performance out of the RX 6600 XT, but also look great when installed in your case, like something from a segment above. Aesthetic touches include a two-tone metal cooler shroud with good ventilation for the aluminium fin-stack heatsink underneath, RGB LED illumination, and a trio of large fans ventilating it; and the fact that the PCB is only two-thirds the length of the card, which means airflow from the third fan flows through the card and out vents on the backplate. ASRock has also given the RX 6600 XT a factory overclock. The company is pricing the card at $500, $120 above AMD MSRP. At the current market conditions, a more realistic price is around $680.