Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 Eagle Review

Name: Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 Eagle
Brand: GIGABYTE
Price: 620 USD

W1zzard

on Nov 16th, 2021,

in Graphics Cards.

Manufacturer: GIGABYTE

Value & Conclusion »

Overclocking

GPU-Z Screenshot for Overclocked Graphics Card

Overclocking the Radeon RX 6600 is quite complicated, just like the RX 6600 XT. You must increase the power limit or you won't see any performance gains, or even have negative scaling. Since RDNA 2, it is no longer possible to dial in a specific frequency; rather, you adjust the minimum and maximum target frequency range, which still is no guarantee, hence "target." The problem is that the clocks will not change if the card is limited by power. As such, you have to dial up the power limit to gain the necessary headroom for the overclocked frequencies to activate.

AMD has limited the length of the overclocking sliders, so you'll basically go as high as possible on power and memory as the card will still be stable, which means some overclocking potential is lost due to AMD's limits.

For GPU overclocking, the situation is similar, but I found that maxing out both the minimum and maximum clock resulted in negative performance scaling. My best overclocking performance results were with the "max clock" slider at the maximum and the "min clock" slider slightly below. It took repeated benchmark runs to find the sweet spot.

Maximum Overclock Comparison
	Avg. GPU Clock	Max. Memory Clock	Performance
ASRock RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming	2738 MHz	2326 MHz	141.2 FPS
ASUS RX 6600 XT STRIX OC	2797 MHz	2275 MHz	137.2 FPS
Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle	2561 MHz	1900 MHz	113.8 FPS
MSI RX 6600 XT Gaming X	2647 MHz	2225 MHz	131.3 FPS
PowerColor RX 6600 Fighter	2546 MHz	1900 MHz	113.1 FPS
Sapphire RX 6600 XT Pulse	2713 MHz	2300 MHz	134.4 FPS
XFX RX 6600 XT Merc 308	2713 MHz	2175 MHz	132.2 FPS