AMD RX 6600 XT Reddit Verdict: Great Owner, Messy Launch

2 whole years later and you get a card that performs the same as a 5700 XT except it has weak ray tracing and costs $20 less than the 5700 XT's launch price. This is the definition of a 'fuck it, anything will sell these days' card.

The 6600 XT is 23% faster than the 5600 XT while being 35% more expensive. The 6600 XT is also 14% slower than the 3060 Ti while being only 5% cheaper. Really bad value.

Due to the 6600 XT featuring PCIe 8x rather than 16x, it will perform worse on PCIe 3.0 systems — say, motherboards like B450 and X470, for instance. Is that correct?

I can't see any reason to get this card at all. AMD have made it crystal clear they're not doing the price war / value thing anymore. Intel needs to get their stuff out ASAP.

The gall of a company to ask $380 for a card and then advertise it as a 1080p part in 2021 is just astounding. We had 1080p cards being sold at $250 not all that long ago. Over time you expect at least one of those metrics to improve — either 1080p cards get cheaper, or $250 cards start targeting higher res.

I would ask what the cost of enabling x16 would be, but that feels kind of ridiculous when we're talking about a $380+ GPU.

Yeah, Doom Eternal in particular was absolutely brutal in the performance drop on PCIe 3.0.

It's interesting to market to gamers, especially as it grows more popular. What really matters to me is connecting to people with their use case — whether they're aware of resolutions outside 1080p and 4K.

Overpriced by at least $100.

HUB actually understands the global context right now. The reality is this card is still going to be the best price/performance new GPU when it launches, even if the MSRP is higher than we'd like given supply chain issues.

Just a reminder this is supposed to be a 1080p card priced at almost $400 and will 100% be priced higher than that on the actual market. Nobody should be paying $400+ for a card that's made for 1080p gaming. That's just a joke.

I still can't see how people defend AMD on this issue. I like AMD but this is just absurd, especially on a pricey GPU.

I would not have complained if this was a $300 card. While not the $200 dream point many want, $300 isn't miles off what the better 580s and 1060s used to go for. So it wouldn't be an amazing price, but at least acceptable.

That's the most favorable review showing only 10% difference at 1080p. Other reviews show 15% and over 20% at 1440p. This shouldn't have been priced more than the actual 3060 non-Ti.

In Doom Eternal the performance drop was so great that the 6600 XT was outperformed by an RX 5600 XT on PCIe 3.0.

In normal times this is a $250 card at best.

This is a $250 product parading as a $400 product. The MSRP for the 3060 Ti was set sensibly. Now we have cards like this with terrible MSRP, going for above $500 anyway.

Now that DLSS is ubiquitous in AAA gaming, it's hard to argue for this vs. the RTX 2060. My 2060 KO beats the 6600 XT in even lightly ray-traced titles while vastly exceeding it in DLSS titles.

I own both the 3060ti and 6600xt. I personally only game in 1080p and don't care for dlss or ray tracing, just care about being able to use max or near max settings at 1080p. The 6600xt outperforms the 3060 by a sizeable margin and I would still be using it if I hadn't upgraded.

I can understand why it was marketed as a 1080p 144hz card. But there definitely IS an audience for 1440p and I'm part of it. Paying close to $400 for something advertised as a 1080p class card is really off-putting.

The reason is product segmentation: 6700 XT for 1440p, 6800 XT for 4K. To not conflict with the 6700 XT, it seems reasonable to position the 6600 XT as 'Premium 1080p'. FullHD gets a bit crowded, but realistically no one uses lower resolution anymore.

This card seems intentionally crippled.

It mainly comes down to the memory subsystem. The 6600 XT uses Infinity Cache to compensate for its narrow 128-bit bus, but this only helps so much before scaling falls off at higher resolutions. That's the real reason it was marketed for 1080p.

I have both a 3060 and 6600xt. For computing and video editing: 3060. But for gaming? 6600xt. I'm getting some high fps on 1080p on ultra or high settings.

Worse than 5700 XT in 1440p/4K + lack of 16x lanes. 2 years later for the same money. Conclusion: Do not buy, don't support this garbage.

The 6600 XT is 100% capable of 1440p gaming in the 60-90 FPS range that 90% of people would describe as a 'great experience'. AMD created this whole marketing thing to sell users on 'high frame rate' gaming — convincing 1080p gamers that 120-144 FPS is the 'new 60 FPS'.

32 CUs and 8GB VRAM. You know what else had that configuration? The RX 570 8GB, which had a $199 MSRP. The profit margins on this thing must be astronomical. Adjust for inflation and slightly increased 7nm costs, this should be a $249 card. Consumers are getting ripped off so bad.

It's definitely playable at 1440p, but its 1440p results aren't impressive compared to Nvidia counterparts. The 3060 is very close behind at 5% at 1440p, and if you're on PCIe 3.0 it might end up being slower than the 3060.

It's better than the 3060 if you don't use DLSS or RTX. Purely in gaming performance, the 6600 is just below the 3060, and the 6600XT is just above the 3060. NVIDIA cards are in much higher demand and offer better additional features, so in terms of pure gaming performance per dollar, AMD tends to be a fair bit better.

The 6600XT is ~12% faster than the 6600, and the 6650XT is ~20% faster than the 6600. In general if you can get a faster GPU and it's not terrible value, it's a good idea to do so as it's usually the main limiting factor for gaming performance.

Got mine today. Upgraded from a GT 710 and the 6600 XT runs at a 50% lower temp, it's as quiet as before, and everything is smooth as butter now at high resolution. Overall I'm very pleased with the purchase.

Time to upgrade your CPU, motherboard, RAM and PSU if you want this GPU to perform. At minimum, a Ryzen 5600 with B450 motherboard and 8GB DDR4 3200 will do.

I am very very happy with mine. It performs between a 3060 and a 3060 Ti. I play everything at High 1080p 75hz monitor. Very low power consumption and low temperatures. Hasn't gone more than 60°C with the MSI one.

I have one and it's great. Over 100fps at ultra in most games I play.

Got a Gigabyte RX 6600XT Eagle on launch day. Apart from potentially loudish fans (my vBIOS set the minimum to 35%) it's a good card. No driver problems.

The performance will more or less be the same for all models — the difference will be noise and temps. According to Hardware Unboxed, the best options were the Powercolor Red Devil/Hellhound and the MSI Gaming X.

My system has a Ryzen 5 5600x, 32GB DDR4, and a Radeon RX 6600. I play all games at 1080p on high to ultra settings. Your system needs contemporary components to see the real performance of this GPU — don't blame the card, blame the bottleneck.

Your CPU is bottlenecking your RX 6600 XT. Upgrade to a Ryzen 5600 or 5700X and you will see the real 6600 XT performance.

I just replaced my 1660S for 6600 XT and I'm very surprised how such a beast card is power efficient and low-temp lol.

It's better at rasterised performance than a 3060 and usually quite a bit better priced. It's a pretty overkill 1080p card. You do get worse RT performance and no DLSS, but it's not really at a performance level where you'd choose RT over a higher resolution and high-ultra settings anyway.

I'm using a 6600 right now and it is pretty good. It runs really stable and pretty cool at 60°C on high settings at 1080p.

There's nothing wrong with the card, it's a good card. The price is the problem.

The MSI RX 6600 XT Gaming X is the hands-down winner for this segment. It cools the best and stays near the top in OC performance. The ASUS version's cooling and noisy fans let it down in testing — the price premium for the ASUS over the MSI is unjustified.

I have the same card and the AMD drivers have been causing me issues — when my PC goes to sleep mode and I try to wake it up, my GPU drivers stop working properly and my FPS in games drops to about 15 until I restart. My drivers are up to date. Any advice would be appreciated.

Yes definitely worth the upgrade — a lot more raw performance and better ray tracing performance (not that it matters much since it's bad anyway). You can even overclock the 6600 XT easily and get the same performance as a 6650 XT.

I've been using the ROG Strix 6600 XT for 5 months now with no issues and the temps are crazy cool. Playing Valorant and the fans don't even spin. I did not regret getting this GPU.

The 6600 XT holds up. Some complex or new Triple A games require me to turn graphics from ultra to high or medium to keep a steady 60fps, and it reaches 80-90% GPU usage. But anything other than the newest most intensive games plays very well on the highest graphics settings.