AMD’s Most Affordable 6000-Series GPU Is Here to Level Up 1080p Gaming

We ’re in the midst of a pandemic and a global chip crunch , but that is n’t stopping AMD from releasing yet another raw GPU . The $ 380 RX 6600 XT is here , and it ’s now the most affordable extremity of AMD ’s current 6000 - serial GPU lineup . While its specs are n’t quite as eye - popping as some of its more expensive siblings , AMD says the 6600 XT was designed to hand over strong carrying into action for gaming at 1080p .

The 6600 XT features 32 compute unit with 8 GB of DDR6 RAM , 32 MB of AMD ’s Infinity Cache , and a plot clock of 2359 MHz . Additionally , with a tycoon draw of just 160 watts , AMD says that RX 6600 XT requirements are low enough that owners should only need a 500 - W power supply , or else of the 800- or 1000 - watt PSUs typically needed to support mellow - ending cards like the 6900 XT or Nvidia ’s 3080 Ti . In fact , ASRock is even making one version of the 6600 XT with a single cooling devotee , so it can jibe in small system with micro- ATX or mini - ITX motherboards .

AMD ’s independent destination with the 6600 XT is to corroborate gaming at 1080p at max options across a wide reach of titles , especially because two - thirds of novel play monitor ship in 2020 have 1080p resolutions . AMD claim that when compared to Nvidia ’s RTX 3060 , the 6600 XT offers 15 % better functioning on medium in games like Cyberpunk 2077 , Doom Eternal , Forza Horizon 4 , and others . Overall , the card tally performance - wise in between the RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti .

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But with support for feature like AMD Smart Boost , Radeon Anti - Lag , and AMD ’s Super FX Resolution , the 6600 XT is still more than open of supporting 1440p or even 4 super C gaming , you just might have to represent around with the game ’s art preferences a bit . And for those who live and die by millisecond reactions , AMD also says its Anti - Lag feature of speech can deoxidise input signal latency by up to 13 % . When it comes to VR , AMD says that the 6600 XT overstep all the minimal requirements for modernistic HMDs , so it should be more than capable of powering both traditional and VR gaming experience .

Unlike AMD ’s former 6000 - series background GPUs , there wo n’t be a reference framework for the 6600 XT . AMD is relying on all of its usual collaborator , including Asus , MSI , ASRock , Gigabyte , and others , to produce retail versions of the card .

Of naturally that brings up the moderately huffy theme of accessibility , which has made it increasingly unmanageable for gamers to get their hands on new GPUs over the past 12 - 18 month . AMD enjoin that it ’s working “ extremely closely ” with its better half to get as many cards into gamers ’ hands as potential , though without any specific act to go by , it ’s laborious to say how easy or difficult it will be to really purchase one at launch .

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But if you ’re been waiting for a novel and comparatively low-priced GPU to confine down your 1080p battlestation , the RX 6600 XT seems like a with child constituent for the job . As always , we ’ll have to wait until we can test one out to be sure .

AMD ’s RX 6600 XT is slated to go on sales event on Aug. 11 for $ 380 .

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