AMD is finally releasing its Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 competitor, the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT. While the new AMD graphics card will compete directly with the RTX 3060, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is slightly more expensive, at a suggested price of €379, compared to the suggested price of €329 for the RTX 3060. Although in these days- Here, it's not like you're going to find a graphics card at this price point anyway. AMD hopes to justify the higher price with a more powerful GPU for pure raster performance. AMD claims that the people buying these graphics cards will mostly be playing esports titles, which won't exactly be using the latest ray tracing technology. As such, the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT will have 32 RDNA 2 compute units, a 32MB cache, 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, and a game clock of 2359MHz, the highest game clock in the world, the RDNA 2 range. If you want to get your hands on the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, you can pick it up on August 11. And while there's no basic version of the graphics card you can buy from AMD, all of the board's regular partners will be making their own versions of the GPU from then on.
Analysis: who is it for?
AMD is touting the Radeon RX 6600 XT as a graphics card for "epic 1080p gaming," and has even cited a bunch of super-heavy AAA PC games where it's supposed to have a performance lead. For example, even in Cyberpunk 2077, which in my tests strongly favors Nvidia hardware, AMD claims the RX 6600 XT will be slightly faster than the RTX 3060. In other games, however, AMD claims a performance advantage of up to 15% discount. the RTX 3060, though I'm still not sure that justifies the significantly higher price. Even at 1440p, the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT should be able to stretch its legs, and that's mostly thanks to FidelityFX Super Resolution, AMD's competitor to Nvidia's DLSS. With this technology in Marvel's Avengers, for example, AMD claims that the Radeon RX 6600 XT can go from 57 fps to 96 fps with the FSR performance preset. And because most people are still using a 1080p monitor (still 68% of PC gamers according to Steam's latest hardware survey), the Radeon RX 6600 XT should be a great choice if you want to make sure you can run the latest and greatest. Best Games, especially if ray tracing isn't something you're very interested in. But that's a bit tricky here. When we heard about this graphics card, AMD didn't really talk about ray tracing performance. So while this is an RDNA 2 card and it will support the technology, you probably shouldn't expect much. Regardless, the Radeon RX 6700 XT struggles a bit at 1080p. But if you mainly play games that don't even support ray tracing, which, let's be honest, most PC games are, you probably won't be missing much. We'll have to put it to the test before we make a firm recommendation on this, and you absolutely need to take what AMD claims about its own products with a grain of salt. But from what we've seen so far, it's an exciting graphics card. Hopefully, we'll start to see graphics cards fill the low-end segment of the market now that AMD and Nvidia have released mid-range 1080p cards. The best graphics card deals right now
