How good or bad the RX 6600 will be can only be determined over the coming weeks, based on street pricing and availability. But for now, the RX 6600 could be the most affordable current-gen graphics card you can buy.
How good or bad the RX 6600 will be can only be determined over the coming weeks, based on street pricing and availability. But for now, the RX 6600 could be the most affordable current-gen graphics card you can buy.
Except at that price it's still a ripoff, the 5600xt was $279 and offers 88% the performance. The RX 580 was available at $200 and still funtions well at 1080p.The card really should have come in at $299 (ideally $279) and undercut the RTX 3060 since the performance is roughly the same.
Right now the 6600 is priced about 15% less than the 6600XT and it gives around 15% less performance then it, too.
It appears to be a solid 1080p card, much like the RTX 3060 is. If I were just looking for a 1080p gaming card and was okay with the $329 and could actually get one at $329, I'd rather put $329 down on a new card over trying to buy a second hand GPU for a similar price that doesn't give as much performance.
PCIe x16 is a reference to the number of physical lanes, not directly aimed at being "double AGP". Apparently you missed the 5500xt entirely two years ago?WTH is AMD doing using an x8 PCI-E interface? The last x8 card I ever saw was an AGP card. One of the big reasons that PCI-E replaced AGP to begin with was the fact that it was capable of x16 (literally double the bandwidth capability of AGP) and now AMD is reverting?
Just stupid.
Prices have been going up on everything, unless that is, you don't pay for anything so you're not aware of it?Except at that price it's still a ripoff, the 5600xt was $279 and offers 88% the performance. The RX 580 was available at $200 and still funtions well at 1080p.
There is no reason a 1080p card in 2021 should have a MSRP over $220, where the 580 was 5 years ago.
Unless you need to replace a dead GPU, the best option is to just wait it out with what you've got. The "least worst" option here is just another outrageous ripoff."The Best Option in a Bad Situation?"
The card really should have come in at $299 (ideally $279) and undercut the RTX 3060 since the performance is roughly the same.
A lot of suckers don't regret getting ripped off, that's why we're in this mess in the first place.Bought the 6600xt not long after release had new pc ready and waiting for a few months minus a graphics card thought was the best buy for availability else would of been 3070ti founders edition but they were far and few between.
No regrets even if I did get ripped off, wont be upgrading until prices get back to normal though.
You should let me buy you a RTX 3060 that's available from my local Best Buy..... it's only priced at $620. Just send me around $700 to cover taxes and shipping costs to get it to you.I was just selected in today's Newegg Shuffle to have the chance to buy one of these...for $430. Just, no.
A lot of suckers don't regret getting ripped off, that's why we're in this mess in the first place.
Have you looked at what retailers charge for cards like e.g. a 1660 Super ? Last I checked it was around $ 500.Except at that price it's still a ripoff, the 5600xt was $279 and offers 88% the performance. The RX 580 was available at $200 and still funtions well at 1080p.
There is no reason a 1080p card in 2021 should have a MSRP over $220, where the 580 was 5 years ago.
You know AMD has a sub 20% market share in GPU, right, so they can't dictate anything.What a terrible bunch of cards AMD is releasing. They are clearly behind Nvidia in features, popularity and arguably performance yet they think releasing dogshit expensive cards is gonna make them look favourable. All this because they know gamers have no choice.
This gives you an insight of what AMD would be like if they were dominant like Intel was. They would pretty much be the same as Intel.