do you like 1080p got too much money lying around think the world needs a
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your very own Radeon rx 6600 a brand new
piece of 1080p graphics card hardware at a price you won't believe but hold up
can it compete with the rtx 3060 and if
it can why isn't AMD talking about it
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whenever any GPU from AMD or NVIDIA is
released there's at least some kind of reveal and anticipation leading up to it
heck even the rtx 3060 had an announcement a little over a month ahead
of time back at ces 2021 so um
why the radio silence on this one it might have something to do with the
ongoing supply issues that have been plaguing the entire industry for some
time now i mean AMD might simply not see a good
way to launch these cards without stirring up controversy over yet another
thing that people can't buy particularly since this is using the same GPU
physically speaking as the rx 6600 xt
right down to the eight gigs of gddr6 and 32 megs of infinity cache
the difference of course is that these are binned down parts where even the
memory is running out of reduced bandwidth so the rx 6600 could actually
be good for supply if these parts were otherwise sitting on shelves collecting
dust and yet this review might be the
first you've heard about it outside of leaks
is there something AMD's trying to hide here
this press deck that we saw sure looks good but you know we need to do some
more digging to find out for ourselves and the best way to do that is through
benchmarks we'll be sticking to Windows 10 for our GPU bench until Windows 11
gaming performance is better understood but we've got a total of five gpus to
test today from both teams over this generation and the previous one
well right off the bat at f1 2021 AMD's looking pretty good with a lead over
NVIDIA's rtx 3060 with ray tracing off but that predictably changes when you
turn ray tracing on the xt variants four additional compute
units that the non-xt lacks really do
matter for tracing those rays and ray accelerators that AMD has included
aren't as mature as NVIDIA's forza horizon 4 picks back up with a
commanding lead for the 6600 coming within spinning distance of its bigger
brother actually and the just released far cry 6 isn't
too shabby for the new GPU either although it is trailing team green by a
few FPS here with ray tracing on however you could
say AMD is a far cry from NVIDIA's performance
i can't believe i wrote that as an aside it's worth mentioning that
fidelity fx super resolution is supported by that title and f1 2021 so
you can squeeze a bit more performance out of it at the cost of some visual
clarity fsrs really come into its own as a better than your monitor kind of
traditional scaler but while it's good at that it's not going
to try and recreate missing details like NVIDIA's deep learning super sampling
will so you can only expect it to do so much back to gaming hitman 3 puts up
some good numbers for the 6600 that are just a hair off of what the rtx 3060
shows and assassin's creed valhalla makes up about as much of a significant
lead as team green has in cs go although the latter title's already high frame
rate makes this less of a win the number of times the rx 6600 dipped below 60fps
in all of these tests is 3 to the 30 60s
one so while imperfect it's not a bad
showing by any means what's more while it's faster for traditional rendering in
most cases if you average all of our gaming results the rx 6600 and the rtx
3060 traded blows so precisely that it
is one hundred point zero zero percent the same performance which is just
mathematically impressive just not objectively impressive like the array of
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2 unlike the rx 6600's productivity performance oh oh yeah this is a card
that is low on the ladder so it's not going to be purchased with this in mind
but it's becoming more of a thing thanks to work from home so here it is davinci
resolve turns in some less than ideal numbers even failing to match the last
gen 5600 xt thanks to that card's greater compute unit count the same
story more or less persists throughout puget bench for creative cloud where
only premiere is even close it's not even a contest with luxmark or indigo
renderer either where even the more expensive xt model is thoroughly stopped
man remember when AMD had productivity on
lockdown power consumption does bring good news
for AMD though as the rx 6600 draws a
peak of about 188 watts throughout all the testing and comes in comfortably
below the power draw of the rtx 3060. for similar gaming performance that
ain't bad it's worth keeping in mind that neither NVIDIA nor AMD have first
party cards for these gpus so thermal performance should be taken with a green
of salt particularly given the overbuilt cooler on our ASUS rtx 3060. still in a
closed test bench our dual fan xfx 6600 doesn't do too bad comfortably sitting
around the 65 degree mark where like the other cards
it maintains its peak core frequency pretty well throughout the run that
brings up an interesting question if this is the same physical silicon as the
rtx 6600 xt can we push the power limit and core
clocks to close the gap well we can match the core clocks but
with fewer compute units we'd have to push it much further in order to come
close to matching the xt's performance there does seem to be a lot of headroom
baked into these cards largely thanks to their aggressively low
power target and low wattage requirements that suggests that AMD is
targeting system integrators and other power conscious folks by leveraging rdna
2's impressive performance scaling of course your mileage may vary greatly
depending on the card you get still is the rx 6600 even remotely worth it
for yet another 1080p max settings graphics card
only if you thought the rtx 3060 was worth it which is probably a big fat no
at 329 the rx 6600 is steadfastly
keeping with the pattern of matching the rtx 3060 for better or worse
we'll have affiliate links for these cards below in case you actually want to buy them but realistically you probably
won't until prices come back down to earth if however we assume that we don't live
in the real world and consider it solely based on the msrp
you have to ask yourself some questions do you want better ray tracing
performance do you want better productivity performance
then maybe you should look at NVIDIA but if you just want to play games then
the rx 6600 is a good fit for AMD fans
or say Linux gamers who enjoy an open source driver compared to NVIDIA's
proprietary blob get subscribed by the way because Linus and luke are doing a
Linux challenge where they actually run it on their home pcs and you don't want
to miss that i know i don't of course these msrps are well above the
200 price point this level of hardware commanded a few short years ago
we've already discussed at length why this is happening so i won't repeat
myself here other than to say yeah it sucks
were it me buying a GPU in the real world today
i would go with a used higher end previous gen card you can actually find
rtx 2080s going for as much as 30 60s on
the street which is probably what the rx 6600 will go for once it sells through
even better if you don't care about ray tracing or productivity gtx 1080 tis are
sometimes going for even less than that neither is actually a good deal in an
objective sense but you've got to take what you can get in this post-apocalyptic wasteland of a chip
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
is still enough in 2021 maybe we should do one for older gpus
too let us know in the comments below actually i think we did one recently but
it's kind of changing now that Windows 11 is out