[Hardware] POWERCOLOR RADEON RX 6600 FIGHTER REVIEW AMD wanted to bui

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FOR                                                                   

Decent 1080p performance

Quiet

Power efficient

Works with 450W PSUs

 

AGAINST

Often slower than an RTX 3060

... and 4GB less memory

Weaker ray tracing performance

 

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 is the latest and cheapest graphics card out of the red team's design works, and it has one simple task ahead of it: compete with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060. To do that, AMD's bringing more of the RDNA 2 architecture we've grown fond of, but in a pared-back and slimmed-down package that just falls short of my hopeful expectations.

AMD was long the dominant force in budget graphics cards and often able to sweep the charts in contests of performance-per-dollar versus Nvidia. As of late, however, neither company has focused all that much on the cheaper side of things (thanks, global chip shortage) and that's left us with a growing void of cheaper chips.

But there are some that straddle the ephemeral concept of 'entry-level' today. AMD already offers the $379 RX 6600 XT and Nvidia's cheapest is the $329 RTX 3060. Both far from entry-level as we once knew it, but that's what we're working with, and what AMD is up against with the RX 6600.

link: https://www.pcgamer.com/powercolor-radeon-rx-6600-fighter-review/