Starting subsequent month, AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 desktop product stack is about to get somewhat deeper – and somewhat cheaper – with the addition of the forthcoming Radeon RX 6600 XT. Announced this night, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is the subsequent step down within the RDNA2-based Radeon lineup, including a card geared toward mainstream, 1080p players. The card will supply 32 CUs’ value of GPU {hardware} together with 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, and can go on sale on August 11th with costs beginning at $379.
The addition of the RX 6600 XT to their desktop lineup has been a long-time coming, as though the corporate is already four playing cards deep into their product stack – most just lately including the 1440p-focused RX 6700 XT practically 5 months in the past – AMD hasn’t been providing a mainstream-focused RDNA2 desktop video card till now. In reality, AMD’s been fairly absent from the mainstream 1080p gaming market as an entire during the last a number of months, because the capacity-constrained firm has been focusing its GPU manufacturing sources on laptop computer components and the high-end RDNA2 chips. But lastly, and finally, it’s time for the 1080p market to get a much-needed enhance from AMD’s RDNA2 structure.
Underpinning AMD’s new 1080p video card is a GPU we’ve already seen as soon as earlier than: Navi 23. This GPU was first employed again in May because the Radeon RX 6600M, the cornerstone of AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 cell lineup. Now that the laptop computer market has had an opportunity to refill on Navi 23 {hardware}, the GPU is making its desktop debut within the aptly named RX 6600 XT. And, not like the RX 6600M, the RX 6600 XT will function a fully-enabled model of the chip, giving Navi 23 its first likelihood to utterly showcase what it’s able to.
Which, within the case of the RX 6600 XT, means serving as AMD’s “epic” 1080p gaming card. The dialed-down GPU offers up some graphics sources (and a number of cache) versus its greater brothers, nonetheless leaving it a potent half, however higher suited to 1080p gaming than it’s 1440p gaming. Which for a market starved of cheaper video playing cards appropriate for 1080p gaming – and let’s be frank, video playing cards generally – is sweet information for players who’re nonetheless making an attempt to get their fingers on a mainstream efficiency class video card that’s updated with reference to options.
As with the RX 6700XT, AMD’s launch cadence is trailing NVIDIA’s, so AMD will get the benefit of figuring out precisely the place their newest card will land versus NVIDIA’s mainstream competitor, the RTX 3060. Shortage shenanigans apart, AMD says they will beat the RTX 3060 – they usually’ll be positioning it greater to match.
| AMD Radeon RX Series Specification Comparison | ||||||
| AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT | AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT | AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT | |||
| Stream Processors | 2560 (40 CUs) |
2048 (32 CUs) |
2304 (36 CUs) |
1408 (22 CUs) |
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| ROPs | 64 | 64 | 64 | 32 | ||
| Game Clock | 2424MHz | 2359MHz | 1375MHz | 1717MHz | ||
| Boost Clock | 2581MHz | 2589MHz | 1560MHz | 1845MHz | ||
| Throughput (FP32) | 12.four TFLOPS | 9.7 TFLOPS | 7.2 TFLOPS | 5.2 TFLOPS | ||
| Memory Clock | 16 Gbps GDDR6 | 16 Gbps GDDR6 | 12 Gbps GDDR6 | 14 Gbps GDDR6 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 192-bit | 128-bit | 192-bit | 128-bit | ||
| VRAM | 12GB | 8GB | 6GB | 8GB | ||
| Infinity Cache | 96MB | 32MB | N/A | N/A | ||
| Total Board Power | 230W | 160W | 150W | 130W | ||
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | TSMC 7nm | ||
| Transistor Count | 17.2B | 11.06B | 10.3B | 6.4B | ||
| Architecture | RDNA2 | RDNA2 | RDNA (1) | RDNA (1) | ||
| GPU | Navi 22 | Navi 23 | Navi 10 | Navi 14 | ||
| Launch Date | 03/18/2021 | 08/11/2021 | 01/21/2020 | 12/12/2019 | ||
| Launch Price | $479 | $379 | $279 | $199 | ||
Diving into the specs, we’ll begin as at all times with the compute core of the GPU….
