AMD has today released the AMD Radeon RX 6600, a new RDNA 2 GPU that has a focus on 1080p as well as high refresh rates. From the press release AMD said the Radeon RX 6600 cards are expected to be available today starting at $329 USD from the likes of ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE, XFX and various retailers.
“The latest generation of games deliver massive leaps in life-like visuals that are driving more graphics performance to meet the demand for the best possible 1080p gaming experiences,” said Scott Herkelman, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit at AMD. “To meet this demand, we’ve designed the Radeon RX 6600 to make these new breathtaking experiences available to more PC gamers, providing the performance of an enthusiast-class powerhouse in a midrange solution.”
Here's the specs along with a comparison to the XT model
|
Model |
Compute Units |
GDDR6 |
Game Clock4 (MHz) |
Boost Clock5 (MHz) |
Memory Interface |
Infinity Cache |
TBP |
|
AMD Radeon RX 6600 |
28 |
8 GB |
2,044 |
Up to 2,491 |
128-bit |
32 MB |
132W |
|
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT |
32 |
8 GB |
2,359 |
Up to 2,589 |
128-bit |
32 MB |
160W |
On the NVIDIA side, it seems the closest competition is the GeForce RTX 3060. While we don't get any cards from AMD to test with, they did provide these images below to compare. From what Phoronix tested, it appears to stack up pretty well against NVIDIA.
If you plan to get one to use with Linux, you should look at Mesa 21.2 at a minimum.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: furaxhornyxGuess I will still be stuck with my GTX 1070... Gotta love those pixel art games
Same here but my games are not pixelated at all
Last edited by Bogomips on 14 October 2021 at 7:01 am UTC
BlackBloodRum Oct 14, 2021
Comments Before:
Oh wow! That GPU is awesome! I've gotta upgrade my GPU to this new one! Look how awesome it is! (etc etc)
Comments Now:
Meh, another GPU that will be almost impossible to buy due to scalpers and miners, no point even trying to get it now. Besides, my GPU still works well enough! (etc etc)
...
Oh how things have changed over the years!
Quoting: GuestYou're not cynical, you're realistic. All of this trouble with GPUs is behind me constantly pushing back any kind of remote idea of getting an upgraded system. I'm starting to wonder when it will impact the games - they'll realise nobody has the kind of system that can run what they want and will have to adjust requirements accordingly. Or just push it out on a streaming service and leave desktop systems out of it entirely.
I’m in the same boat. Been looking to upgrade for a few years now, but the way they’ve been almost constantly announcing and releasing new cards, only to have them either not be available anywhere, costing a fortune, or only available from scalpers, I’ve decided to wait, again and again.
I’m not buying a card at these price, and when you’ve waited long enough for the price to come down to almost reasonable levels, a new card is announced. So I’m still here with my RX480.
And then there the shoddy QC and skimping on component quality by the manufacturers, since the five cards they produce will be torn out of the shelves by scalpers anyway.
Last edited by Appelsin on 14 October 2021 at 8:38 am UTC
Tough times.
I wanted to do a full system upgrade a year ago but who knows when that'll be (reasonably) possible.
I play 4k with an RX580 eGPU @ a 2012 T430 thinkpad laptop connected with express card. (PCIe 2 1x).
I want a list of the games that are "playable" at 1080p with this card, so I know which games I will buy in 10 years.
Next time I'll buy amd/ati, intel, or whatever has good opensource suport, even if it's not the best. I have no integrated gpu on my ryzen.
Ludological Oct 14, 2021
Around five years ago, I bought an RX480 for my partner's PC. Between available products and the horrific GPU pricing these days, I'll never see that price to performance ever again.
I was holding out hope that RDNA2 APUs would bridge the low-end gap, but I doubt AMD will get anywhere close if it risks eating in to their "low-end" GPU market.
Quoting: LudologicalI have an R9 270x which I've been looking to replace for years due to problems with Vulkan support in Linux. Doesn't look like I'll be buying anything soon.
That's one of those cards that has some support for Vulkan if you set a kernel parameter, right? I have a card from that generation. It was my card before the current one. I was expecting to replace my current card with the RDNA2 generation, but then this happened.
Mohandevir Oct 14, 2021
Edit: Can't even find a scalper posting yet. It just feels like these have not been shipped yet, at all.
Last edited by Mohandevir on 14 October 2021 at 2:07 pm UTC
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