Review RX 6600XT Reviews Thread

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Stuka87

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Rather than burry these in some 1000 page thread, may as well make them easy to find.

The performance is better than I expected. Fair bit faster than a 5700XT, but at a lot lower power consumption. Ray Tracing is poor, but that should not be a surprise. I do find it sad that TPU had to change their `Performance per Dollar` chart to include the obscene street prices :(



 
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DeathReborn

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Hardware Unboxed with a fololow up in which he says the retailers refer to MSRP as a promotional price... man AMD keep screwing the pooch on this card.
 

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In a world without mining this probably would have been released as a sub-$300 card. I don't know if they're going to have any discrete cards based on an even smaller Navi chip at some point, but the low-end GPUs from the last generation also had 8 lanes instead of 16 so it just seems to be a matter of saving money.

The design choices regarding how many lanes it should have would have been made well in advance of the latest mining boom so it's really reaching to assume it has anything to do with mining, particularly when the performance difference between 8 and 16 lanes seems to be a single game based on what's been posted so far.
Yes, of course, no company ever learns from history, or established precedent. I like Occam's Razor too, but when the suits and MBAs are part of the equation, it stops being the best explanation far too often.
 

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particularly when the performance difference between 8 and 16 lanes seems to be a single game based on what's been posted so far.

this is just utterly lazy designing then.
Id rather see it as AMD did this on purpose to save lanes on a card they knew very little gamers would get there hands on.
Then intentionally gimped a card and overcharged it to the public.

Also if the card is 8x... make the card a physical 8x.
Why the hell you gotta trick the market base by making it a physical 16x and then having it gimped to 8x.

Yeah, thats like labeling a car 4x4, but in having the feature only move either the front 2 wheels or the rear wheels one at a time and not simultaneously.

Seriously if your going to go and put that much work on a physical 16x interface.... then you may as well make it 16x.
If its 8x, why even bother with a physical 16x.... its not like the card is a 3090 with a MASSIVE heatsink that would use a physical 16x to support the weight.

This is a bad card... i hope no one buys it... and goes with the 6700XT ($479) or the 3060 ($349).
I for one will never recommend this card, unless you remove the display ports entirely and make it a dedicated headless mining card.
Which i think will be the next iteration for this card... a 8x headless mining card.
 
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aigomorla

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I think that largely shows that the people who thought it needed or would benefit from 16 lanes were dead wrong.

no your not getting the point...
the fact they can charge so much and not give us that extra 2% is what peeves us.
If your going to charge as much as what a 6700XT should normally of costed, then at least give us those 2%.
But instead they aren't and charging us for it anyhow.

This is why we are ranting.

Personally this card isn't even in my catigory when i look at gpu's so it doesn't apply to me, but if i was going to pay the 500 dollar+ on a card which should cost 250 dollars, then by heavens give us that tiny 2%.

Yeah, this all came around when the 5600XT came out also, which also had 8 lanes. And it was the same 1-2% difference back then as I recall. Actually, I think even lower end polaris parts were 8 lanes only, and it didnt matter then either.

Yea but that was the price on that 5600XT?

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It was 239.... at 239 i wont complain about that 2%... why? because im pretty sure if your budget is limited to you getting that 5600XT, that 2% probably won't matter much.

But no.. your paying original msrp of a 3070 RTX... imagine how you'd feel about that and not getting the 16 lanes you could be getting if the 3070 RTX was available.

At least on the 3060 RTX they still also give you that 2%, although i bet most of them are miner cards, and will probably never run the gpu faster then 8x, as you need 8x to even boot with the card, from what i hear.
 
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789.99... 6700XT.. you can buy now.
Infact most of the stock still hovers at around 800 dollars.

Makes the 6600XT @ $800.00+ utterly meanless.... unless your truely an idiot or you got lucky at launch and grab'd one at 499ish, which you can't anymore, or a miner... as it only requires 1 pci-e power vs 2 on the 6700 XT.

GG.... the 6600XT is 2021 WORST Videocard of the year.

Performance difference between the two:
 
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But you can't really because of mining. If the 5700 XT was still available new it wouldn't be $399 right now.
Which is as realistic as a D&D discussion i.e. pure fantasy. What does a 5700xt sell for at the moment? That's the reality.
NVIDIA didn't increase the MSRP of the 3060/Ti compared with the MSRP of 2060/Super. AMD slapped $100 more on the 6600 XT compared with the 5600 XT.

Admit it, AMD got greedy considering the current market scenario.
 
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