MSI’s model of the AMD RX 6600XT, which is the one Ars Technica examined for this overview. [credit: MSI / AMD ]
In a standard PC {hardware} cycle, AMD’s new RX 6600XT might have been a welcome stopgap for a finances viewers. Through the years, we have recurrently seen this sort of GPU from each main GPU producers. These corporations recurrently flip down some specs, repurpose sub-optimal chips, and get a reasonably priced choice to observe their greatest kahunas for anyone tiptoeing into strong 1080p or 1440p gaming choices on PC.
Sadly, there’s nothing conventional concerning the newest conventional PC {hardware} cycle. As we speak’s supply-and-demand ecosystem of pc GPUs appears to be like like one thing out of a terrifying Dario Argento movie. The horrors that lurk in each shadow embrace chip shortages and bot-fueled scalper waves.
And that context actually helps us body the $379 RX 6600XT—an underpowered, overpriced, and downright disappointing GPU whose main gross sales pitch is 1080p gaming. That class is famously CPU-limited, not GPU-limited, so this GPU’s mileage will actually range based mostly in your rig. Typically, Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti (at solely $20 extra MSRP) wins handily, whereas Nvidia’s RTX 2060 Tremendous (which launched for $399 in July 2019) is inside shouting distance of this brand-new card. That latter yardstick particularly makes AMD’s latest product a tough GPU to advocate.
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