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do you like 1080p got too much money lying around think the world needs a

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little more e-waste well has AMD got an offer for you starting today you can get

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your very own Radeon rx 6600 a brand new

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piece of 1080p graphics card hardware at a price you won't believe but hold up

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can it compete with the rtx 3060 and if

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it can why isn't AMD talking about it

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whenever any GPU from AMD or NVIDIA is

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released there's at least some kind of reveal and anticipation leading up to it

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heck even the rtx 3060 had an announcement a little over a month ahead

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of time back at ces 2021 so um

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why the radio silence on this one it might have something to do with the

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ongoing supply issues that have been plaguing the entire industry for some

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time now i mean AMD might simply not see a good

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way to launch these cards without stirring up controversy over yet another

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thing that people can't buy particularly since this is using the same GPU

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physically speaking as the rx 6600 xt

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right down to the eight gigs of gddr6 and 32 megs of infinity cache

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the difference of course is that these are binned down parts where even the

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memory is running out of reduced bandwidth so the rx 6600 could actually

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be good for supply if these parts were otherwise sitting on shelves collecting

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dust and yet this review might be the

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first you've heard about it outside of leaks

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is there something AMD's trying to hide here

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this press deck that we saw sure looks good but you know we need to do some

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more digging to find out for ourselves and the best way to do that is through

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benchmarks we'll be sticking to Windows 10 for our GPU bench until Windows 11

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gaming performance is better understood but we've got a total of five gpus to

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test today from both teams over this generation and the previous one

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well right off the bat at f1 2021 AMD's looking pretty good with a lead over

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NVIDIA's rtx 3060 with ray tracing off but that predictably changes when you

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turn ray tracing on the xt variants four additional compute

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units that the non-xt lacks really do

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matter for tracing those rays and ray accelerators that AMD has included

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aren't as mature as NVIDIA's forza horizon 4 picks back up with a

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commanding lead for the 6600 coming within spinning distance of its bigger

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brother actually and the just released far cry 6 isn't

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too shabby for the new GPU either although it is trailing team green by a

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few FPS here with ray tracing on however you could

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say AMD is a far cry from NVIDIA's performance

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i can't believe i wrote that as an aside it's worth mentioning that

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fidelity fx super resolution is supported by that title and f1 2021 so

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you can squeeze a bit more performance out of it at the cost of some visual

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clarity fsrs really come into its own as a better than your monitor kind of

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traditional scaler but while it's good at that it's not going

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to try and recreate missing details like NVIDIA's deep learning super sampling

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will so you can only expect it to do so much back to gaming hitman 3 puts up

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some good numbers for the 6600 that are just a hair off of what the rtx 3060

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shows and assassin's creed valhalla makes up about as much of a significant

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lead as team green has in cs go although the latter title's already high frame

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rate makes this less of a win the number of times the rx 6600 dipped below 60fps

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in all of these tests is 3 to the 30 60s

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one so while imperfect it's not a bad

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showing by any means what's more while it's faster for traditional rendering in

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most cases if you average all of our gaming results the rx 6600 and the rtx

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3060 traded blows so precisely that it

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is one hundred point zero zero percent the same performance which is just

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mathematically impressive just not objectively impressive like the array of

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colors available for lanyards on ltteststore.com ten bucks a pop and nine

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2 unlike the rx 6600's productivity performance oh oh yeah this is a card

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that is low on the ladder so it's not going to be purchased with this in mind

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but it's becoming more of a thing thanks to work from home so here it is davinci

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resolve turns in some less than ideal numbers even failing to match the last

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gen 5600 xt thanks to that card's greater compute unit count the same

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story more or less persists throughout puget bench for creative cloud where

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only premiere is even close it's not even a contest with luxmark or indigo

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renderer either where even the more expensive xt model is thoroughly stopped

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man remember when AMD had productivity on

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lockdown power consumption does bring good news

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for AMD though as the rx 6600 draws a

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peak of about 188 watts throughout all the testing and comes in comfortably

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below the power draw of the rtx 3060. for similar gaming performance that

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ain't bad it's worth keeping in mind that neither NVIDIA nor AMD have first

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party cards for these gpus so thermal performance should be taken with a green

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of salt particularly given the overbuilt cooler on our ASUS rtx 3060. still in a

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closed test bench our dual fan xfx 6600 doesn't do too bad comfortably sitting

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around the 65 degree mark where like the other cards

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it maintains its peak core frequency pretty well throughout the run that

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brings up an interesting question if this is the same physical silicon as the

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rtx 6600 xt can we push the power limit and core

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clocks to close the gap well we can match the core clocks but

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with fewer compute units we'd have to push it much further in order to come

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close to matching the xt's performance there does seem to be a lot of headroom

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baked into these cards largely thanks to their aggressively low

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power target and low wattage requirements that suggests that AMD is

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targeting system integrators and other power conscious folks by leveraging rdna

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2's impressive performance scaling of course your mileage may vary greatly

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depending on the card you get still is the rx 6600 even remotely worth it

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for yet another 1080p max settings graphics card

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only if you thought the rtx 3060 was worth it which is probably a big fat no

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at 329 the rx 6600 is steadfastly

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keeping with the pattern of matching the rtx 3060 for better or worse

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we'll have affiliate links for these cards below in case you actually want to buy them but realistically you probably

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won't until prices come back down to earth if however we assume that we don't live

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in the real world and consider it solely based on the msrp

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you have to ask yourself some questions do you want better ray tracing

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performance do you want better productivity performance

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then maybe you should look at NVIDIA but if you just want to play games then

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the rx 6600 is a good fit for AMD fans

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or say Linux gamers who enjoy an open source driver compared to NVIDIA's

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proprietary blob get subscribed by the way because Linus and luke are doing a

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Linux challenge where they actually run it on their home pcs and you don't want

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to miss that i know i don't of course these msrps are well above the

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200 price point this level of hardware commanded a few short years ago

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we've already discussed at length why this is happening so i won't repeat

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myself here other than to say yeah it sucks

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were it me buying a GPU in the real world today

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i would go with a used higher end previous gen card you can actually find

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rtx 2080s going for as much as 30 60s on

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the street which is probably what the rx 6600 will go for once it sells through

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even better if you don't care about ray tracing or productivity gtx 1080 tis are

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sometimes going for even less than that neither is actually a good deal in an

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objective sense but you've got to take what you can get in this post-apocalyptic wasteland of a chip

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shortage that we found ourselves in but you don't have to settle for bad

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feeling particularly frugal go check out our recent video on whether four cores

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is still enough in 2021 maybe we should do one for older gpus

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too let us know in the comments below actually i think we did one recently but

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it's kind of changing now that Windows 11 is out