AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT Launched To Compete Against NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

MojoKid writes: AMD officially unveiled the Radeon RX 6600 XT in late July but the cards have officially launched today, aimed at 1080p gaming. In a review at HotHardware, PowerColor is offering both a high-end Radeon RX 6600 XT Red Devil and its somewhat more mainstream "Fighter" branded counterpart, for example. Whereas AMD's reference Radeon RX 6600 XT offers a Game clock up to 2359MHz and a Boost clock of 25895MHz, the PowerColor Red Devil peaks at 2428MHz (Game) and 2607MHz (Boost). Those higher GPU clocks result in higher compute performance and fillrate, etc., but the memory configuration and frequency are the same -- so in memory bandwidth constrained situations, performance won't be all that much different.

Performance-wise, with most game titles that use traditional rasterization, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is clearly faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 and previous-gen cards like the Radeon RX 5700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060 Super. However, when you factor ray tracing into the equation, NVIDIA has a distinct and significant advantage still. The Radeon RX 6600 XT Fighter should sell for at or close to its $379 MSRP. PowerColor says that they should be readily available for gamers to purchase today.

Is it crippled to prevent mining?

[CaptAubrey]

And although they announced it will the consumer even be able to find one without paying outrageous markups?

Re:Is it crippled to prevent mining?

[ELCouz]

No, AMD said publicly that what you do with your hardware is none of their business. Nvidia on the other hand try to cripple the gaming cards to dump their CMP HX mining cards on the market.

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[tlhIngan]

No, AMD said publicly that what you do with your hardware is none of their business. Nvidia on the other hand try to cripple the gaming cards to dump their CMP HX mining cards on the market.

it's easy to say that when you're the underdog.

AMD is trying to sell cards, and being seen as traditionally weaker cards means there's generally less demand for them.

So if you're a miner, you're getting the 3090s and 3080s because nVidia is known for their fast cards. And you're willing to pay for it.

nVidia knows this, a

25895 Gigawatts

[MaDMvD]

Nice boost clock, bro.

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[sgunhouse]

That's MHz, but yes - an interesting typo. Table in the article lists 2589 MHz, not sure where the extra 5 came from.

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[Opportunist]

You could send over 21,500 DeLoreans back to the future with that.

Good luck finding one...

[Robert Goatse]

at MSRP. If you really need this card or any one really, be prepared for a 100-200% mark-up. I'll be glad when PC component prices come back to earth.

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[gTsiros]

in greece it is sold for â750

even the 5600xt is sold for the same price

insane

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[gTsiros]

That was supposed to be the EUR symbol.

Even the 5500xt is sood for at least EUR 750

What the hell...

Re: Good luck finding one...

[Type44Q]

I'll be glad when PC component prices come back to earth

That's never going to happen again - at least not in dollars.

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[drinkypoo]

Don't care, because it's way way way over my budget for a GPU. The graphics card alone costs more than a whole games console. If these guys want to kill the PC gaming market, this is how you do it

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[Luckyo]

It's not that they want to kill PC gaming market. It's that on the free market, whoever wants to pay the most for the product gets it.

And it's hard for gaming to compete with creating numbers that are exchangeable for good money out of electricity. Latter are simply going to be able to pay in accordance with how much money they can get out of the hardware, which with current crypto prices and mining difficulty is much higher than gaming hardware cost before.

The fucked up part is that AMD and nvidia don't ev

At that price point...

[Chas]

At the nearly $400 price point, it's an utter waste of money.
Bring scalping into it, and you may as well be wiping your ass with the money and smoking it.

Availability?

[Opportunist]

You can easily compete with nvidia if your card is just available. That alone would put it ahead of the competition.

Uhhh, yeah... might want to check numbers

[chmod a+x mojo]

Performance-wise, with most game titles that use traditional rasterization, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is clearly faster than the GeForce RTX 3060

Yeah, no. You might want to check out some real benchmarks. The card was tested at Linus Tech Tips with the vids posted a day or two ago. Even factory overclocked cards only beat the 3060, much less the 3060TI in a few games and workloads. Otherwise they got spanked.

LTT even held off on specifically recommending the card since for like $20-30 more the NVidia cards performed better all around. They only recommend it if the 6600XT is the only card around that you can get. Even then obscene markups likely will

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[TheRealMindChild]

Even factory overclocked cards only beat the 3060, much less the 3060TI in a few games and workloads. Otherwise they got spanked..

And no RTX

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[Tough Love]

They will still sell as many as they can produce.

AMD

[Lily162]

I've never liked AMD products, but lately I've noticed quite good things in them. Their processors may compete with the more expensive Intel. I already want to try their new product and share my impressions.