AMD’s RX 6600 XT is fine. It’s alright, from a benchmarks standpoint, but it’s also a display of stagnation in a market that is easy to exploit. AMD’s 6600 XT has strayed from value.
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These benchmarks test the PowerColor AMD RX 6600 XT Fighter vs. the RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti, and other cards, including the 6600 XT vs. RX 580, GTX 970, RTX 3070, RX 6800, et al. Benchmarks look at rasterized gaming performance to find the best cards for 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, but also ray-traced performance (very briefly) in a few games. We also test for thermals, power consumption, and overclocking on the RX 6600 XT.
If you want to learn more about the specs and die changes in the RX 6600 XT, you can find that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDqOYXfwiik
Exploding PSUs aren’t stagnation, check those out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDqOYXfwiik
We also looked more positively at the OEM-only AMD R7-5800 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqYBCNJUy5E
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The AMD RX 6600 XT launches August 11th and you will have been able to find them here on Amazon:
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You can find the EVGA RTX 3060 on Amazon here:
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You (might) be able to find the Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti here:
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - AMD RX 6600 XT
01:54 - Community Sticker Shock
04:01 - Stagnation & How We Review Things
08:01 - PowerColor RX 6600 XT Fighter Thermal Benchmark
08:57 - Erratic PowerColor Fan Behavior
09:58 - RX 6600 XT Overclocking
11:02 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p RX 6600 XT Benchmarks
12:11 - Tomb Raider 1440p GPU Benchmarks 2021
13:01 - Tomb Raider 4K GPU Benchmarks
13:29 - Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, & 4K) on 6600 XT vs. 5600 XT
15:07 - Red Dead Redemption 2 (1080p & 1440p) on RTX 3060 vs. 6600 XT
15:49 - Rainbow Six: Siege (1080p, 1440p, & 4K)
17:06 - Division 2 (1080p & 1440p)
17:36 - Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p
18:00 - Ray Tracing Shadow of the Tomb Raider (RX 6600 XT)
19:01 - Minecraft RTX at 1080p (RX 6600 XT)
19:32 - Power Consumption in Furmark
20:55 - Conclusion: (Temporary?) Death of the Mid-Range
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I'm just very disappointed they decided to charge $400 for it.
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This is exactly why I trust your team and Point anyone who's tech curious to this channel.
That being said, I know you're normally fairly stoic, I'd love to see some legit anger from you guys once in a while railing at this crap these companies are doing.
Cheers guys, if your team is ever in my area. Beers are on me.
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Me, 2021: "Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution."
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For a while now my MO for upgrading beyond the used 1080 Ti I bought 2 years ago was to get something twice as fast which used a third less power and cost no more than 450 UKP. I think the seas will boil away before such a thing is going to exist. While waiting though my gaming interests have shifted as newer games have devolved into hand-holding nonsense, so now I don't need a speed increase, in which case something that was the same speed but used a lot less power would be appealing (ie. I care more about noise these days), but at these prices modern cards are a joke. In the UK the 6600 XT is around 430 UKP, ie. a staggering $600 US.
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Are these poor value propositions all due to just stagnation or is inflation also playing a role?
Karl Karlsson:
Sure, my power use is stupid when I push the GPU but I look at what I can get as an exchange, I would rather pay a few dollars more monthly than hundreds now
Again, thanks to you and the team for making relevant content
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You've perfectly captured that feeling of exhaustion about the new graphics card of this generation. It's either going to be overpriced or you can't buy it.
Back in the day, that kind of bad value would make the release DOA. Literally everything will sell.
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At this point in AU it actually appears better value for native 4k gaming to pay a slight premium on a scalper's PS5 than to pay these exorbitant prices for NVIDIA/AMD cards.
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Me (2020): I can wait until the release of midrange cards.
Me (2021): Well, at least I won't be tempted to upgrade my 1080p 75 Hz monitor to 1440p any time soon.
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Mind you, even suggested retail pricing for the RX 6600 XT is pretty steep for what is basically a FullHD card.
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I'll keep my GTX1070 on medium/low and play games on PS5 in the meantime.
But my 6600k is getting seriously tired, I hope intel's 12th gen will be worth the 6 generations gap.
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While This card has same performance as 5700 XT
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I am now playing still on 1080p and my 1070 still does fine for most games I play.
I would enjoy some RTX in the near future but as it is now the prices are just too darn high!
It is a pity because RTX is a really neat new development for consumer graphics and while it still looks a bit rough in it's implementation I still think it's interesting.
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At this point in time I would think that should run light to med games at 4K medium level.
Instead, they roll out midrange at over €400 and they end up costing around €650 in practice.
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I remember the good old days, when you could get great price to performance, for 200 or less, and when 400 was the, "high end".
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Years back you can get a high end 1080Ti or Vega 64 frontier edition with such money.
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As always, your content is great and I watch most videos, thank you so much for the insight into these cards.
Also, this is probably a very niche environment, but I'd love to get some data on how these cards fare on VR titles!
There is very little content on it and, if you think it's worth it, you could bring a set of new people to your videos by helping with this particular subject, even if it's just a short 10 to 20 seconds slide with a few metrics.
Thank you for all your work :)
It's very much appreciated and I learn a lot from it.
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