ASRock Radeon RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D Review - Best Overclocker, Best Cooler

Name: ASRock Radeon RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D
Brand: ASRock
Price: 500 USD

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on Aug 20th, 2021,

in Graphics Cards.

Manufacturer: ASRock

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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.

Radeon RX 6600 XT Market Segment Analysis
	Price	Cores	ROPs	Core Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock	GPU	Transistors	Memory
RX 5600 XT	$500	2304	64	1375 MHz	1560 MHz	1500 MHz	Navi 10	10300M	6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2060	$500	1920	48	1365 MHz	1680 MHz	1750 MHz	TU106	10800M	6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 5700	$750	2304	64	1465 MHz	1625 MHz	1750 MHz	Navi 10	10300M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2060 Super	$650	2176	64	1470 MHz	1650 MHz	1750 MHz	TU106	10800M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX Vega 64	$600	4096	64	1247 MHz	1546 MHz	953 MHz	Vega 10	12500M	8 GB, HBM2, 2048-bit
RX 5700 XT	$800	2560	64	1605 MHz	1755 MHz	1750 MHz	Navi 10	10300M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2070	$650	2304	64	1410 MHz	1620 MHz	1750 MHz	TU106	10800M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060	$550	3584	48	1320 MHz	1777 MHz	1875 MHz	GA106	13250M	12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2070 Super	$700	2560	64	1605 MHz	1770 MHz	1750 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
Radeon VII	$800	3840	64	1400 MHz	1800 MHz	1000 MHz	Vega 20	13230M	16 GB, HBM2, 4096-bit
RX 6600 XT	$650 MSRP: $380	2048	64	2359 MHz	2589 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 23	11060M	8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
ASRock RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming	$680 MSRP: $500	2048	64	2428 MHz	2607 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 23	11060M	8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RTX 2080	$750	2944	64	1515 MHz	1710 MHz	1750 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 Super	$800	3072	64	1650 MHz	1815 MHz	1940 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti	$700	4864	80	1410 MHz	1665 MHz	1750 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6700 XT	$770	2560	64	2424 MHz	2581 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 22	17200M	12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2080 Ti	$1100	4352	88	1350 MHz	1545 MHz	1750 MHz	TU102	18600M	11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070	$1000	5888	96	1500 MHz	1725 MHz	1750 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3070 Ti	$1100	6144	96	1575 MHz	1770 MHz	1188 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 6800	$1300	3840	96	1815 MHz	2105 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit

Packaging

The Card

The ASRock RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D uses a mostly black design with red highlights. On the back, you'll find a high-quality metal backplate with cutouts to let some airflow through.

Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 899 g.

Installation requires three slots in your system. The card is only slightly thicker than the PCIe slot cover, but that still makes it a triple-slot card. That said, it should fit just fine if you have a very small card next to it, like a tiny sound card.

Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.1. Display and media capabilities are identical to the rest of the RDNA 2 family.

The card has one 8-pin power input. This configuration is rated for up to 225 W of power draw.

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 series doesn't support multi-GPU.

Teardown

The heatsink provides cooling not only for the GPU, but the VRM circuitry and memory chips, too. The thermal pads for the memory are 1.0 mm thick, and those on the VRM are 1.5 mm thick.

The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling. The thermal pads on the backplate are 2.5 mm thick.

High-resolution PCB Pictures

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