AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Graphics Cards Announced for 1080p Gaming

AMD has unveiled the brand new Radeon RX 6600 XT mid-range GPU, aimed toward players who wish to goal excessive efficiency and excessive refresh charges at 1080p. The firm is touting 15 p.c higher efficiency than rival Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 and as much as 2.5X higher efficiency for anybody who wish to improve from a GeForce GTX 1060, which continues to be essentially the most broadly used discrete GPU as per the most recent Steam {hardware} survey. Graphics playing cards manufactured by Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Sapphire, XFX, ASRock, Biostar, PowerColor, and others might be accessible worldwide ranging from August 11. Pre-built gaming desktops that includes this GPU will even go on sale in numerous markets in August.

Details of pricing in India might be introduced by particular person producers. The new Radeon RX 6600 XT has a advised MSRP of $379 (roughly Rs. 28,275 in India earlier than taxes). Given the international scarcity of GPUs and ensuing value spikes, it’s unsure whether or not playing cards will really be accessible at this value degree. AMD has said that the Radeon RX 6600 XT is just not ideally suited to cryptocurrency mining, however no particular {hardware} tweaks to discourage this have been carried out.

The Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU joins the Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT, RX 6800 and RX 6700 XT in AMD’s current-gen lineup, all powered by the identical RDNA 2 graphics structure. According to AMD, two-thirds of gaming shows shipped in 2020 had resolutions of 1920×1080, however there’s sturdy demand for upgrades to high-refresh-rate screens. 

In phrases of specs, this GPU options 2,048 “stream processors” grouped into 32 compute items, with 32 ray accelerators. Stock frequencies vary from 2359MHz to 2589MHz (increase). Typical energy draw might be 160W, and AMD recommends a 500W minimal energy provide. Graphics card producers might be free to customize their cooling options and ship overclocked playing cards. However, all Radeon RX 6600 XT fashions will characteristic 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence on a 128-bit bus, for as much as 256GBps reminiscence bandwidth.  

The declare of 15 p.c higher efficiency than the GeForce RTX 3060 comes from video games resembling Battlefield V, Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, Hitman 3, and Resident Evil: Village. AMD says it ran these video games at 1080p utilizing the very best doable settings and most beneficial API. Resizable BAR (whih AMD has carried out as Smart Access Memory) was enabled on each check programs. Esports players also needs to count on excessive body charges – 553fps in Valorant, 441fps in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Siege, and 425fps in CS:GO. AMD additionally claims between 1.4X and 1.7X efficiency will increase in video games together with Doom Eternal, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Borderlands 3 and Forza Horizon 4, in comparison with the previous-generation Radeon RX 5600 XT.  

As with the remainder of the Radeon RX 6000 sequence, the Radeon RX 6600 XT helps ray tracing. Software options embrace AMD’s Smart Access Memory in addition to FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling, Radeon Boost, and Radeon Anti-Lag.