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“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: MohandevirIn fact, I just want to swap my noisy GTX 1660 Super because my son want's it and it runs a lot quieter on Windows than on Linux. The problem is not the price, it's the availability. On Newegg.ca, 500$CAN is like 356$US (approx.) which is not far from MSRP.
Edit: Can't even find a scalper posting yet. It just feels like these have not been shipped yet, at all.
One catch with higher prices now is that you can also sell a used card on Ebay to compensate a bit. That works especially well for AMD cards like Vega and RDNA1 ones which can sell for almost double their original prices.
Last edited by Shmerl on 14 October 2021 at 6:06 pm UTC
Since I have a PS5, spending $600 on a computer video card isn't as high of a priority anymore. I just wasn't able to get my hands on one many months ago, but I was able to get a PS5, so that's where the money went.
At this point, I feel like GPU's won't be obtainable for like 2 more years. *sigh*
Anyone have any tips for buying graphics cards? Are there manufacturers that sell direct and limit 1 per person and have bot protection and stuff like that? That's how I was able to get the PS5 (from Sony store).
Quoting: 14Anyone have any tips for buying graphics cards? Are there manufacturers that sell direct and limit 1 per person and have bot protection and stuff like that? That's how I was able to get the PS5 (from Sony store).
Lately cards appear in stores in waves, like a monthly drops or so. And they aren't sold out immediately like before but eventually they do after may be a day. So just pay attention to that.
Last edited by Shmerl on 17 October 2021 at 12:42 am UTC
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