7:15 I was trying out capping Jedi Survivor to 40 FPS in Rivatuner for this capture. As you can see, the frametime graph is rock solid. Highly recommended, especially if you have a monitor with a 120Hz mode!
Ordered an open box 6600 from Microcenter today for $145. They called me up and said they couldn't find the clearance item, so they were going to have to give me a new card instead of a used one and asked me if it was okay. ASKED ME IF IT WAS OKAY.
The nerve of them trying to push a new card at you like that instead of giving you what you order. You should head down to their store and demand to speak to the manager.
Heck even 1440p, I rock a 1440p 165hz screen, and you can drop a bit a settings on most games and use FSR in 1440p, good 60fps experience in all games, and 165 in esports.
I have one, good 1440p card too as long as you play games that developers actually spent time improving the performance of. There is a game called "The Isle" I play often, it's a UE5 game with pretty good looking graphics, I play it at 1440p mostly maxed out settings (other than shadows being on high instead of Epic) I get 60-120 fps depending on where I am on the map. Oh also this is with no upscaling too.
Try $238 for RX 6700XT top model XFX Merc (with box and everything) or the RTX 3090 I bought two days ago for $504 top model Asus ROG Strix - again with its box and still 1 year warranty. As good as new.
@@hussainali1340 Try £0 for a R5 5600, 16GB Corsair 3200mhz and MSI RX6600 Mech 2X. My lad brought a R7 5800x3d,64gb of ddr4 4400mhz and RX 6700XT ,so gave me his old parts if I installed them for him.
@@hussainali1340 well you got lucky to get that card for that price, where i live, they are pricey af ! Even 2nd hand they are asking msrp prices from when they came out, its like the covid BS is still takced to the price.
I bought this card as a stopgap during the scalper pandemic after my laptop died and I went for a brand new PC. I only used it for a year, but during that year, I had absolutely zero complaints. It was and is one of the best "I have no budget, but I want something decent" cards that have ever been made.
I did the same thing, I got my 6600 for use as a placeholder card during the pandemic. I used it until a couple months ago when I replaced it with an A770 16 GB. It was a great card but it was really only meant for 1080p, and I had upgraded to a 1440p monitor about a month before I got the A770. Then I sold the 6600 to a coworker
i remember being so dumbfounded when i found out about this card, because in my country the 6600 costs 66% (SIXTY SIX PERCENT) less than a 3060 while being comparable or even at times faster. i bought it 2 months ago and its absolutely crazy how people are willing to pay the nvidia tax. ALSO IT RUNS AT 100 WATTS MAX. its fantastic
3060 definitely faster.. paired with a decent ryzen the caches will make up ground, but I honestly would pit that against my sons 3050 OC and 12,900k (cheap combo'd up deal) pairing.. They're all gated by bus lbr.
Wdym? The rtx 3060 8gb is 15-20 percent faster than an rx 6600 but is 30 percent more expensive than an rx 6600. So amd's card is a way better buy and forget about the 3050. That card is horrible. Besides they dont even compare. The rx 6650 xt is better by 10% than a 3060 while being cheaper. @@Benito650
I own a 6600, sometimes I feel like plugging my PC to my 4k screen and I can game no problems, I don't mind playing singleplayer games at 30fps high settings on (upscaled) 4k. Such a great purchase
exactly, here in Argentina you can buy a brand new 6600 for the same price as a 1650 sometimes, it's ridiculous... AMD is very strong if you learn how to work around their drivers issues @@Juing-rr2pc
@@LibangF15 dont play at max settings then. im also a high fps gamer but my 6600xt still delivers 100+ fps in any game with enough adjustments in the settings. i absolutely love this card
The 6600 was my go to for my budget build. It was getting comparable results to my rtx 3060 and if you go to the used market, you can find this card at sub $200 sometimes even below $150. Paired with the Ryzen 5600 this thing can run anything over 60 fps! CP 2077 with the new expansion on Ultra settings with no RT at 1080p ran at 70-80 fps.
I love the RX 6600 for the power consumption. I have the cheap custom model Powercolor Fighter RX6600 but the cooler is enough and the card is quiet. Last week I got a "broken" RX 5700XT from a friend. And so I have 3 cards with 8GB and "same" strength. Vega64/RX 5700XT/RX 6600.
@@Hughesburner It's a card from a smoker. I need to clean the card before I test it. Many RX 5700XT are broken. (10-15%) My friend had many issues with this card but RX 6700XT works like a dream for him.
@@Grayest_Fox said a dude knows nothing about pc. PSU limit is a problem, and low wattage mean it run really cool. The fans dont even have to spin at max speed, which is the top 1 reason why gpu can last longer. Heat kills your gpu.
I'm on this Sapphire Pulse version. Loving everything and running anything I need it to do. Simple + compact, low noise and power efficient. Thanks for the video.
Should note its a bit weak for vr tbh..had a 6600xt at launch and vr had issues... could be better now, I wouldn't know. My 1080ti handled vr better. Lack of cuda is a deal breaker for some people. Most games will do pretty good though.
I was going to get a 6600 recently but there was a sale on the 6650xt for only $30 more so ended up getting that. I think the 6000 generation in general are best value for money you can get for new at the moment. It seems like the 6700xt would be the nest value choice for 1440p.
I bought this exact XFX 6600 for a family member for 150 USD on ebay a few months back. Good purchase, good GPU. I feel like people have been sleeping on these, especially used ones.
Lovely card. Hadn't used Radeon in 12 years and that was in a laptop, then i got the RX 6600 for my second gaming rig just a month ago. An HP z420. I was nervous incase it didnt work, but it did, its gorgeous! If i swap out that rig for a brand new one, ill just pop the RX in that one.
I have one, I think it's basically a safe recommendation to anyone who has a strict budget and doesn't want to risk the used market. It plays every game on the market but it will need some (usually minor) compromises to run the latest titles. I definitely agree that if one is strict budget and wants a new GPU there is no competition truly at this price bracket but this does lead to the hardest question for the 6600 - if you save just around $20-50 you can get a 6650xt and sometimes a 7600 which are both a good bit faster. Still, the entry tier pricing of this card is meant for the most budget minded and it does run every game and usually well, so it is worth praise for that. It's also better than the woeful and more expensive rtx 3050, which is actually love to see you review as I've heard people complain it's a downgrade at times from a 2060 and you're by far my most trusted tech and GPU reviewer. Great vid.
Yeah.. its a great card.. I got a 2nd hand deal on a rx 6600 and it was great for 1080p .. Big step up from my old gtx 980. I then moved up to rx6800 and then rtx 3090 as deals and gpu market permitted. Of all the cards I had in the last 15 months the rx 6600 was the best value and gave the most joy.. A great little card and very energy efficient.
A year ago I got the RX 6700 10GB, since it ticked all my boxes - the best one that fits in my old OEM case, is strictly two slot, has full PCIe x16 and was a legit upgrade over my RX 580. It wasn't cheap, but the RX580 recouped a significant portion of the price.
The RX 6600 is the only GPU that isnt overpriced in my region (South Africa). I am very happy with it even if it wasnt as cheap as US prices. I bought mine for 263 USD in June. I love being able to play modern games now!
Just an anecdote about Control, I've been playing it for the first time recently and I noticed the same texture pop in on some objects with my RTX 4070 (Max settings + RT). It was pretty noticeable on the portraits like you showed at 2:42, so I think it may be more of the game's doing than the GPU.
Been running a 6600XT for a year or so now and it's done well. Although bear in mind that if you pair it with an older platform and CPU like a 2700X, it'll underperform. Soon as I moved to an AM5 board with Smart Access Memory/Resizeable BAR support and a newer CPU it took off. So it's definitely better as part of a full new build if possible rather than an upgrade, unless you've already got a fairly recent CPU.
Originally decided on a 6600 but ended up finding a 6650xt for $210 so it was a no brainier. Xfx cards look soooo good. 5700x3d is $210 currently so got an endgame am4 chip. Throw a 7900xt in and be set for years
The test bench is very similar to my personal pc: Rx6600Xt + r5 5600 (not X) + 32gb ram on a B55. This gpu is great, efficient (Energie costs are up), cheap (180€ used) and is a good upgrade from my gtx 1650 on my old Laptop (which could only use 50w max. In some games the 6600xt uses less or equal watts to the 1650 for much more performance. Can only recommend it. I should add, I play only on a 1440p 144hz display. Also great for 1440p if you dont expect to play on ultra or high
Got this paired with a 3700x for a really nice and quite power efficient set up. Can run basically anything at 1080 max or even 1440 with a lot of games, absolutely love this card!
This config is the same for the PC I built for myself in 2022 for about $1200 USD (1000 on the original build, and $200 after realizing how bad the 6500xt was) so it’s nice to see how it stacks up in your test of the games I haven’t played on it! Love the videos as always!
Same card I have in one of my rigs. It's a beastly 1080p card. Runs everything maxed out without problems. I do recommend changing the fan curves though since they are set as "off" until it hits 60 degrees C from factory. Put mine at 35% at 0-50c and then a steady climb to 100% from there pretty much matching the temp up to 100C. It's not necessary but it dropped idling temps from 33-35C to 24-26C and max temp never goes over 60C.
Go for it, I had the i5 3470 & a RX580 4GB and I went for a Ryzen 5 2600x and a RX6600 and its a night and day difference. If you use AMFM you can basically double the FPS
I have a 6600xt, and both cards are great for the value. Any slightly older game is a high refresh rate experience, and pretty much any new game is high 1080p 60 (if the optimization is there)
I have an RX 6600 and 5600X combo actually. Great setup for 1080p, and handles my needs very well. I don't get the weird graphical issues on the newer games either.
Bought it week ago for about 220eur gigabyte eagle with 3 fans, highly recommend it. Undervolts fine, uses 60-70w under full load, never reaches 60c, amd gaming settings give 100 fps in most games. Bestbuy for sure.
I am presonally a user of this GPU and sometimes I want more juice out of it however, remembering what I used to rock and for how cheap one can get this GPU.. there's no need for me to complain. And this video amazingly sums it up.
I owned for 6 months and it was a really good card. I did 1080 upscaled to 1440p with rsr and never had a issues. I hace a laptop now with a 6800m (basically a rx 6700xt( and its not to far from it
It is great. Absolutely. But I ditched it for an Arc a580, only to gain hardware XeSS and to leave the Chromium video flickering issues behind. If you like FSR and don't use Chromium-based browsers for TH-cam or social media scrolling with interspersed embedded videos, the 6600 is absolutely fantastic.
@@Swattii brudda i have a 480, had to cheap out 😭😭, in all seriousness, there are more modern nvidia cards, like the 1080ti, but those are still around 300 or more (converted to $).
I believe amd’s comment of the lineup being “complete“ is in reference to the physical chips not the cards themselves so they could still release a cut down chip for a low end card : )
I was eying the 6600 and 6650 since 2021. I did eventually get the 7600 some months ago but I think I definitely would have loved the jump from 1050Ti to 6600.
Proud 6600 owner here. Bought it for around $120 used for my first PC build and it's great. It will serve me for at least 3 years until it's no longer feasible for 1080p 60fps gaming.
to my this is the current successor to the rx580. although hard to beat the value of an rx5700xt. i bought one of those back in 01/01/20 and while i've only kept it for like a year and a half, if i still had my 1080p uw monitor, it would still be kicking ass. but alas, i got a free upgrade to a 6700xt (bought it for the same absurd price i sold my 5700xt for), so i took it. and then the 6700xt was kinda not that well suited for my new shiny 4k 120hz screen, so i bought a 6900xt. which coil whined like mad and annoyed me non-stop, so i sold it after keeping it for 9 months and bought my current rtx 4080
i'm upgrading to the rx 6600 from a 1660 super and feel quite excited, even though some will say that it's not a worthwhile upgrade for me i think it's pretty good, about 35% performance uplift on average and extra 2GB of VRAM + i only need to spend $30 for the upgrade
the appeal of the 6600 for me is that i can just pop it in my current rig and be able to do things like VR and 144 1080p for cheap (currently i got a 1060 3gb a 4790k and a 550w psu, awesome back when i got it, but a bit of a dinosaur now)
Got one for $150, was gonna get a 4070, but I realized I don't really need the extra power in the games I play on PC, so I also got a PS5 with the $ I saved.
Bought mine last year for 280 euros, while the 3060 and 6600 xt both were still 400 dollars and it was the only thing i could find. (Heck the 3050 was 30 euros more expensive)
What I don't get is why is 1080p still such a climb for these newer graphics cards? We've been playing in 1080p for legit like 10 years, over that time graphics cards have gotten supposedly so much better every year. THE GAMES STILL LOOK THE SAME!!!! yet the fps we get with these newer cards seem to never change. 60 fps 1080p.
I just got an RTX 3070 for $280 and I couldn't be happier. The seller actually seems to have refurbished it, and the thing has like one single spot of damage that isn't even noticeable. Came well packaged, too.
You didnt mention the one big thing that makes this card even better. It consumes only 120W under full load! Terrible undervolting Performance but man 1080p was never that efficient. Combine that with an i3-13100 and you get an 180W Full load 1080p Monster!
To all you stubborn mules holding on to your 1060's and RX 580's, I salute you but if you throw in the towel the 6600 is the first option I'd say to go with. If you are even looking at AMD, you like me have pegged RT as a parlour trick. Even comparing it to a 7600 you can put the difference spent on either a year of any given game pass or add it to steam wallet and buy two 'free' titles of your choice. That number only goes up when you consider the team green tax.
Great video. That drop in core clock in some games, like A Plague Tale or Jedi Survivor might me remedied with an undervolt + messing a bit with core clock to reach around 2500mhz.
Picked this card out for my brothers pc when i built it for him. Also got the card 3 years after getting the ryzen 5 3400G and im super happy with the performance. I got the ryzen 5 3400g during the shortage for the cheap igpu becuase with how bad the prices were i couldnt afford a good gpu during 2024.
I've got a very similar setup to the one you used here, so I appreciate the testing -- except I got my RX6600 $184 US with tax from Amazon (Although I've not seen them that low since). So it really is a decent value for a new card.
Picked this card out for my brothers pc when i built it for him. Also got the card 3 years after getting the ryzen 5 3400G and im super happy with the performance. I got the ryzen 5 3400g during the shortage for the cheap igpu becuase with how bad the prices were i couldnt afford a good gpu during 2024. Ended up paying $150 for each card
The 6600 is fantastic The main problem with modern gaming is the games are horribly optimized and badly written not that most people don't have a beefy enough system to run. I wish people running benchmarks would also show a snapshot of everything running on your PC. I want to see your task manager and system load--lots of times people are losing computing power to garbage running in the background.
I love budget and mid-range cards because let's face it that's where most of us game. A card like a 6600, or my near identically performing 2060S, can give you 95% of the gaming of top cards, play everything apart from a handful of -shittily optimised- demanding modern games like a dream and doesn't require you to flog a kidney to be able to buy one, and doesn't require a small fission reactor to power it. This 6600 only comes with a recommendation for a 300W PSU making it a great choice for slapping into a pre-built or just a really focussed budget build.
@@Grayest_Fox Yeah when newer mid-tier cards come out with similar or greater performance at half the power consumption. I can pick up 2080tis for a little under the price of used 3070s but it doesn't mean I'll buy one. If I needed a space heater I'd consider it, two birds one stone like, but I have central heating so I don't need to.
I got an a770 for 250 cad used (bout half the price and some compared to new after tax). Pretty happy with it. It does have some strange behavior sometimes but you get used to it.
Got that card in the spring this year for £240, it was a great deal then and I can't believe it even got down significantly lower than that. For this price at the current market it is a steal.
I added the 6650 XT to my son's PC and I'm going to say, price to performance, it's the current king of the hill. The 6600 is good, but the bump in performance by moving up to the 6650 XT makes it a way better value for the money.
My two youngest kids have very similar builds. One has a 5800x/6750xt/32gb pushing 1440p 165hz and the other has 5600x/6600xt/32gb pushing 1440p 180hz. I just bought the XFX 6750XT for $200 used with box and with even the plastic still on it. The 6600xt was $128 used back in late 2022. When they play fortnite together in a private creative world his 6750 is darn near twice the performance of the 6600xt. The 6700xt and 6750xt seem to be the best values as I also see plenty of games using well over 8gb vram in game.
bought a new rx 6600 last week around $220 (gpu prices in the Philippines sucks) and the next gpu is around $300 which is a 3060 or a 6700 which is way too expensive for me and i have been enjoying the rx6600 after being stuck with a 1050ti for 2 years
I like the idea of just having an RT pass or fail test. The tech itself is (imo) pointless in its current form. Just having a "can it reach 60 fps at this resolution while RT is maxed" section of the benchmarks would let everyone know if it is worth even trying to turning on.
Sounds like a very good challenge, by those conditions the RTX series would actually loose its RTX. Either way its pointless, ever remember havok and phisix where they would suggest a second card to run phisix.
7:15 I was trying out capping Jedi Survivor to 40 FPS in Rivatuner for this capture. As you can see, the frametime graph is rock solid. Highly recommended, especially if you have a monitor with a 120Hz mode!
Ordered an open box 6600 from Microcenter today for $145. They called me up and said they couldn't find the clearance item, so they were going to have to give me a new card instead of a used one and asked me if it was okay. ASKED ME IF IT WAS OKAY.
The nerve of them trying to push a new card at you like that instead of giving you what you order.
You should head down to their store and demand to speak to the manager.
Thats microcenter for you. If you can get parts from there they always have the best customer support
😂🙌🏿
@@SIPEROTH I would do if the nearest Microcentre store wasn't something like 3,200 miles
Lucky 😂
The RX 6600 is a great GPU, get it if you want something close to $200 that can play anything at 1080p.
Heck even 1440p, I rock a 1440p 165hz screen, and you can drop a bit a settings on most games and use FSR in 1440p, good 60fps experience in all games, and 165 in esports.
My friend got one for $140, with warranty still on until February 2024 I think
I have one, good 1440p card too as long as you play games that developers actually spent time improving the performance of.
There is a game called "The Isle" I play often, it's a UE5 game with pretty good looking graphics, I play it at 1440p mostly maxed out settings (other than shadows being on high instead of Epic) I get 60-120 fps depending on where I am on the map. Oh also this is with no upscaling too.
AMD say it only needs a 300W PSU, makes it great for slapping in a pre-built too.
Rtx 2060 super is cheaper and gets you access to dlss and such along with the any gpu fsr stuff and can play near anything 1080p 60/120 fps.
Got a 6600 recently for 200, bundled with starfield. Feels like the best hardware deal I got in years
Try $238 for RX 6700XT top model XFX Merc (with box and everything)
or the RTX 3090 I bought two days ago for $504 top model Asus ROG Strix - again with its box and still 1 year warranty. As good as new.
@@hussainali1340 Try £0 for a R5 5600, 16GB Corsair 3200mhz and MSI RX6600 Mech 2X. My lad brought a R7 5800x3d,64gb of ddr4 4400mhz and RX 6700XT ,so gave me his old parts if I installed them for him.
@@hussainali1340 well you got lucky to get that card for that price, where i live, they are pricey af ! Even 2nd hand they are asking msrp prices from when they came out, its like the covid BS is still takced to the price.
@@sergiolandz6056 Its not that Im lucky, used GPU market here crashed so hard. Literally I can find 3060Ti for $175.
@@hussainali13406950xt performs better without rt
I bought this card as a stopgap during the scalper pandemic after my laptop died and I went for a brand new PC.
I only used it for a year, but during that year, I had absolutely zero complaints. It was and is one of the best "I have no budget, but I want something decent" cards that have ever been made.
Think it could still be used for that until the 50 series comes out? If the 5090 really is a 50%+ uplift over the 4090 I might pay anything for it
It's a 1080p card. It'll be pretty damn useless for a 4K monitor, and I wouldn't wait for a 5090 if I didn't at least have a 4K monitor.@@arenomusic
@@OneAngrehCat I'm getting a 3440x1440 monitor but I don't want to have to even think about a new GPU for 7-8 more years
I did the same thing, I got my 6600 for use as a placeholder card during the pandemic. I used it until a couple months ago when I replaced it with an A770 16 GB. It was a great card but it was really only meant for 1080p, and I had upgraded to a 1440p monitor about a month before I got the A770. Then I sold the 6600 to a coworker
i remember being so dumbfounded when i found out about this card, because in my country the 6600 costs 66% (SIXTY SIX PERCENT) less than a 3060 while being comparable or even at times faster. i bought it 2 months ago and its absolutely crazy how people are willing to pay the nvidia tax. ALSO IT RUNS AT 100 WATTS MAX. its fantastic
rtx 3060 is still faster but me too i got an rx 6600
3060 definitely faster.. paired with a decent ryzen the caches will make up ground, but I honestly would pit that against my sons 3050 OC and 12,900k (cheap combo'd up deal) pairing..
They're all gated by bus lbr.
@@WaelproBHyou mean 1% to 2% faster ? yeah sure don't worry amd will fix that with their drivers don't worry.
Wdym? The rtx 3060 8gb is 15-20 percent faster than an rx 6600 but is 30 percent more expensive than an rx 6600. So amd's card is a way better buy and forget about the 3050. That card is horrible. Besides they dont even compare. The rx 6650 xt is better by 10% than a 3060 while being cheaper.
@@Benito650
@@WaelproBH in Hardware Unboxed 12 game average the 3060 is only about 5fps better than an RX6600
I own a 6600, sometimes I feel like plugging my PC to my 4k screen and I can game no problems, I don't mind playing singleplayer games at 30fps high settings on (upscaled) 4k. Such a great purchase
That sounds awful 😅
2080 Super would have given you better performance from the used market for a similar price. If not 2070 Super is still better.
@@flexplodin any NVIDIA GPU where I live is at least double 150% of the USA price, AMD is a way better deal
@@nahuelcarrizo308 and power consumption is ridiculous...... Not to mention AMD FMF will be at driver level on rx6000 series
exactly, here in Argentina you can buy a brand new 6600 for the same price as a 1650 sometimes, it's ridiculous... AMD is very strong if you learn how to work around their drivers issues @@Juing-rr2pc
That power consumption and the temps!🤯 I believe that this card in performance is going to be the new RX580 for Radeons
Same VRAM as the 580 too lol.
@@giserson2 Yep. gotta cut production price any way possible I guess, OR sell ya that 10gb and 12gb 6700/XT somehow hehehe
@@giserson2 Not same chip
@@giserson2the bus is 128 so it wouldn’t really make sense to make a higher vram one as seen with the 4060
True it won't even use more VRAM@@inshallah4280
this RX 6600 paired with a R5 3600 makes a great combo
optimal if you want a sub-400€ computer that runs practically everything
* if you buy used parts
i wholeheartedly agree 🙋♂🤞, since im using 2nd hand components built back 2020 covid times and realizing how reliable they are. @@joaogodinho7129
Zen 3 as a min
@@chriswright8074 i bought this suummer a new R5 3600 for 64 Euro and plan to upgrade to R7 5800X3D that costs 300 Euro.
I prefer pairing it with a 12100f but 3600 isnt bad either
Watching this on my RX6600 + 5600X PC.. absolutely love it.💛
same combo here, such great purchases
same i also have 5600x and rx 6600
60fps not playable for me. I need 120+. It is 2023 ! Leave 60FPS in history.
@@LibangF15 ok
@@LibangF15 dont play at max settings then. im also a high fps gamer but my 6600xt still delivers 100+ fps in any game with enough adjustments in the settings. i absolutely love this card
No Joke, 1 Minute before this video came out I JUST looked up this gpu because i saw it on CEX for a good price.
Go get it 💪
The 6600 was my go to for my budget build. It was getting comparable results to my rtx 3060 and if you go to the used market, you can find this card at sub $200 sometimes even below $150. Paired with the Ryzen 5600 this thing can run anything over 60 fps! CP 2077 with the new expansion on Ultra settings with no RT at 1080p ran at 70-80 fps.
I love the RX 6600 for the power consumption.
I have the cheap custom model Powercolor Fighter RX6600 but the cooler is enough and the card is quiet.
Last week I got a "broken" RX 5700XT from a friend.
And so I have 3 cards with 8GB and "same" strength. Vega64/RX 5700XT/RX 6600.
How broken was the broken card?
@@Hughesburner It's a card from a smoker.
I need to clean the card before I test it.
Many RX 5700XT are broken. (10-15%)
My friend had many issues with this card but RX 6700XT works like a dream for him.
RX 6600 is good at 1080p and capable at 2k, its cheap and environmental friendly(max 100W+ and extremely low 6.5W idle).
Such a KIND graphic card!
Who the fuck cares about wattage? Unless you are in Europe, it doesn't matter
@@Grayest_Fox said a dude knows nothing about pc. PSU limit is a problem, and low wattage mean it run really cool. The fans dont even have to spin at max speed, which is the top 1 reason why gpu can last longer. Heat kills your gpu.
@@Grayest_Fox 😂 post a video about ur pc, bet yo ass u dont even have a decent one.
@@Grayest_Fox *casually lives in Eastern Europe*
I'm on this Sapphire Pulse version. Loving everything and running anything I need it to do. Simple + compact, low noise and power efficient.
Thanks for the video.
Same
Same there
Got a 6600xt for $120 used. I’m quite happy with it. Been playing the new assassin cred on high @ 1080p with no issues.
It's about the same performance as the RTX 3060 and costs less than half the price. What more is there to say?
Yea the 3060 wins by 5 fps but the underrated card that's better than both are the 6700 and cost cheaper than a 3060😂
@@scarfaceReaper I actually got my 6700XT new on sale for 250.
where i can find it for that price?@@autistvidya2215
Should only buy a 3060 for the 12 GB of VRAM and blender optimizations tbh If you are not doing productivity work, then just buy an AMD card.
Should note its a bit weak for vr tbh..had a 6600xt at launch and vr had issues... could be better now, I wouldn't know. My 1080ti handled vr better. Lack of cuda is a deal breaker for some people. Most games will do pretty good though.
Great review!
Been impressed with the 6600!
I paired one in 5300g system and they seem to pair well. Keep up the great work good sir!
I bought an RX 6650 XT for $220 earlier this year for my fiancee and for what she plays, it is an absolute masterpiece of a GPU.
I was going to get a 6600 recently but there was a sale on the 6650xt for only $30 more so ended up getting that. I think the 6000 generation in general are best value for money you can get for new at the moment. It seems like the 6700xt would be the nest value choice for 1440p.
I bought this exact XFX 6600 for a family member for 150 USD on ebay a few months back. Good purchase, good GPU. I feel like people have been sleeping on these, especially used ones.
Lovely card.
Hadn't used Radeon in 12 years and that was in a laptop, then i got the RX 6600 for my second gaming rig just a month ago. An HP z420.
I was nervous incase it didnt work, but it did, its gorgeous!
If i swap out that rig for a brand new one, ill just pop the RX in that one.
I have one, I think it's basically a safe recommendation to anyone who has a strict budget and doesn't want to risk the used market. It plays every game on the market but it will need some (usually minor) compromises to run the latest titles.
I definitely agree that if one is strict budget and wants a new GPU there is no competition truly at this price bracket but this does lead to the hardest question for the 6600 - if you save just around $20-50 you can get a 6650xt and sometimes a 7600 which are both a good bit faster.
Still, the entry tier pricing of this card is meant for the most budget minded and it does run every game and usually well, so it is worth praise for that. It's also better than the woeful and more expensive rtx 3050, which is actually love to see you review as I've heard people complain it's a downgrade at times from a 2060 and you're by far my most trusted tech and GPU reviewer.
Great vid.
they are faster in proportion to the price hike. value is the same.
Yeah.. its a great card.. I got a 2nd hand deal on a rx 6600 and it was great for 1080p .. Big step up from my old gtx 980.
I then moved up to rx6800 and then rtx 3090 as deals and gpu market permitted.
Of all the cards I had in the last 15 months the rx 6600 was the best value and gave the most joy..
A great little card and very energy efficient.
I saw it, I clicked.
A year ago I got the RX 6700 10GB, since it ticked all my boxes - the best one that fits in my old OEM case, is strictly two slot, has full PCIe x16 and was a legit upgrade over my RX 580. It wasn't cheap, but the RX580 recouped a significant portion of the price.
The RX 6600 is the only GPU that isnt overpriced in my region (South Africa). I am very happy with it even if it wasnt as cheap as US prices. I bought mine for 263 USD in June. I love being able to play modern games now!
Same here, I bought the exact the same model showcased in the video from Wootware
Also, from South africa, I bought mine in 2022 November for just R3200 or 170$. Though it was 2nd hand.
@@cyberlogic3102 good price. Where'd u find the seller?
@@west5385 Cape Town
Seapoint if I remember correctly
Just an anecdote about Control, I've been playing it for the first time recently and I noticed the same texture pop in on some objects with my RTX 4070 (Max settings + RT). It was pretty noticeable on the portraits like you showed at 2:42, so I think it may be more of the game's doing than the GPU.
The 1030's a beast of a card, shouldn't have any issues running a measly game like Control @@N_N23296
I’m glad I got this card for 100 dollars on used market. Paired with R5 5500 no issue warzone 100 plus fps.
On most of these you can also squeeze out a little more oomph by undervolting and maxing out the memory clocks without issue.
Been running a 6600XT for a year or so now and it's done well. Although bear in mind that if you pair it with an older platform and CPU like a 2700X, it'll underperform. Soon as I moved to an AM5 board with Smart Access Memory/Resizeable BAR support and a newer CPU it took off. So it's definitely better as part of a full new build if possible rather than an upgrade, unless you've already got a fairly recent CPU.
This and the RX 6700 XT are so good value right now
Originally decided on a 6600 but ended up finding a 6650xt for $210 so it was a no brainier.
Xfx cards look soooo good.
5700x3d is $210 currently so got an endgame am4 chip. Throw a 7900xt in and be set for years
The test bench is very similar to my personal pc: Rx6600Xt + r5 5600 (not X) + 32gb ram on a B55. This gpu is great, efficient (Energie costs are up), cheap (180€ used) and is a good upgrade from my gtx 1650 on my old Laptop (which could only use 50w max. In some games the 6600xt uses less or equal watts to the 1650 for much more performance. Can only recommend it. I should add, I play only on a 1440p 144hz display. Also great for 1440p if you dont expect to play on ultra or high
Got this paired with a 3700x for a really nice and quite power efficient set up. Can run basically anything at 1080 max or even 1440 with a lot of games, absolutely love this card!
This config is the same for the PC I built for myself in 2022 for about $1200 USD (1000 on the original build, and $200 after realizing how bad the 6500xt was) so it’s nice to see how it stacks up in your test of the games I haven’t played on it! Love the videos as always!
U made an 1000 dollar pc and that too with 6500xt 😢 ... Insane 😢
best budget card for 1080p gaming
Love my MSI RX6600 with Ryzen 5 3600. Everything i play is above 60fps. Love it. Found it last year for $100 used. Instantly hit BUY NOW. lol
I got a 6600 new last cyber monday for $180. Insane value and was a great upgrade from a 970. It came with 2 games too
Just picked up the RX 6600 power color fighter from microcenter
Glad I saw this video
Same card I have in one of my rigs. It's a beastly 1080p card. Runs everything maxed out without problems. I do recommend changing the fan curves though since they are set as "off" until it hits 60 degrees C from factory. Put mine at 35% at 0-50c and then a steady climb to 100% from there pretty much matching the temp up to 100C. It's not necessary but it dropped idling temps from 33-35C to 24-26C and max temp never goes over 60C.
I managed to pick up a new RX 7600 today for $370 AUD (£192) so the RX 6600 might have some competition soon if UK prices follow Australia.
Will see but for sure 7600 will not beat 6600 on value.
Where did you get that from?
I have i5-8400 and rx580 4gb. I think that Rx6600 is the best option to upgrade my pc
Go for it, I had the i5 3470 & a RX580 4GB and I went for a Ryzen 5 2600x and a RX6600 and its a night and day difference. If you use AMFM you can basically double the FPS
I have a 6600xt, and both cards are great for the value. Any slightly older game is a high refresh rate experience, and pretty much any new game is high 1080p 60 (if the optimization is there)
I have an RX 6600 and 5600X combo actually. Great setup for 1080p, and handles my needs very well. I don't get the weird graphical issues on the newer games either.
Bought it week ago for about 220eur gigabyte eagle with 3 fans, highly recommend it. Undervolts fine, uses 60-70w under full load, never reaches 60c, amd gaming settings give 100 fps in most games. Bestbuy for sure.
I am presonally a user of this GPU and sometimes I want more juice out of it however, remembering what I used to rock and for how cheap one can get this GPU.. there's no need for me to complain. And this video amazingly sums it up.
I owned for 6 months and it was a really good card. I did 1080 upscaled to 1440p with rsr and never had a issues. I hace a laptop now with a 6800m (basically a rx 6700xt( and its not to far from it
Tech channel's like yours are always a breath of fresh air. Not full of complaining.
It is great. Absolutely. But I ditched it for an Arc a580, only to gain hardware XeSS and to leave the Chromium video flickering issues behind. If you like FSR and don't use Chromium-based browsers for TH-cam or social media scrolling with interspersed embedded videos, the 6600 is absolutely fantastic.
heeel yeaah brother, i got the rx6600 last december and i dont regret it
I traded in an Rx580 an i7 4650k and 16gb ddr3 ram and got an rx 6600 for the princley sum of £30 at CEX. Possibly my greatest bargain.
I built my dad a R5 3600/RX 6600 system for christmas last year to replace his decade old Alienware prebuilt. He seems pretty happy with it so far.
cant wait for the market in my country to advance from rx 580s...
RX 580 is still a really good card in my opinion. Slightly better value than the GTX 1060 BUT they were hard to find during the mining craze.
@@Swattii brudda i have a 480, had to cheap out 😭😭, in all seriousness, there are more modern nvidia cards, like the 1080ti, but those are still around 300 or more (converted to $).
I believe amd’s comment of the lineup being “complete“ is in reference to the physical chips not the cards themselves so they could still release a cut down chip for a low end card : )
I was eying the 6600 and 6650 since 2021. I did eventually get the 7600 some months ago but I think I definitely would have loved the jump from 1050Ti to 6600.
Proud 6600 owner here.
Bought it for around $120 used for my first PC build and it's great. It will serve me for at least 3 years until it's no longer feasible for 1080p 60fps gaming.
to my this is the current successor to the rx580. although hard to beat the value of an rx5700xt. i bought one of those back in 01/01/20 and while i've only kept it for like a year and a half, if i still had my 1080p uw monitor, it would still be kicking ass. but alas, i got a free upgrade to a 6700xt (bought it for the same absurd price i sold my 5700xt for), so i took it. and then the 6700xt was kinda not that well suited for my new shiny 4k 120hz screen, so i bought a 6900xt. which coil whined like mad and annoyed me non-stop, so i sold it after keeping it for 9 months and bought my current rtx 4080
i'm upgrading to the rx 6600 from a 1660 super and feel quite excited, even though some will say that it's not a worthwhile upgrade for me i think it's pretty good, about 35% performance uplift on average and extra 2GB of VRAM + i only need to spend $30 for the upgrade
the appeal of the 6600 for me is that i can just pop it in my current rig and be able to do things like VR and 144 1080p for cheap (currently i got a 1060 3gb a 4790k and a 550w psu, awesome back when i got it, but a bit of a dinosaur now)
I got a RX6600 used when i had to get a new GPU within my budget and PSU limet (I only have a 450 w psu). I am very glad about my RX6600
Got one for $150, was gonna get a 4070, but I realized I don't really need the extra power in the games I play on PC, so I also got a PS5 with the $ I saved.
Bought mine last year for 280 euros, while the 3060 and 6600 xt both were still 400 dollars and it was the only thing i could find. (Heck the 3050 was 30 euros more expensive)
bought this about 2 weeks ago, its been amazing!
What I don't get is why is 1080p still such a climb for these newer graphics cards? We've been playing in 1080p for legit like 10 years, over that time graphics cards have gotten supposedly so much better every year. THE GAMES STILL LOOK THE SAME!!!! yet the fps we get with these newer cards seem to never change. 60 fps 1080p.
Because game "developers" have gotten lazier and dumber.
Got a sapphire rx 6600 for 190, it plays everything at 1080p high combined with a 10th gen i3 and with fsr it looks good on a 4k tv
I just bought it,it's my first ever desktop and amd GPU.coming from a mobile GTX 1650 the difference is night and day.i paired it with a 12100f.
I just got an RTX 3070 for $280 and I couldn't be happier. The seller actually seems to have refurbished it, and the thing has like one single spot of damage that isn't even noticeable. Came well packaged, too.
got an 6600XT during the scalper period and I paid a bit more however, its such a great GPU and it serves me well and might be here to stay
The "Cheap + Good + Current - pick 2" is a pretty good encapsulation of the modern GPU buying process.
You didnt mention the one big thing that makes this card even better. It consumes only 120W under full load! Terrible undervolting Performance but man 1080p was never that efficient. Combine that with an i3-13100 and you get an 180W Full load 1080p Monster!
To all you stubborn mules holding on to your 1060's and RX 580's, I salute you but if you throw in the towel the 6600 is the first option I'd say to go with. If you are even looking at AMD, you like me have pegged RT as a parlour trick. Even comparing it to a 7600 you can put the difference spent on either a year of any given game pass or add it to steam wallet and buy two 'free' titles of your choice. That number only goes up when you consider the team green tax.
Great video. That drop in core clock in some games, like A Plague Tale or Jedi Survivor might me remedied with an undervolt + messing a bit with core clock to reach around 2500mhz.
For those who may be wondering, it handles assetto corsa with full rain and graphics at 60fps
No hesi for some reason lags on mine I’ll probably have to play in the settings later.
Picked this card out for my brothers pc when i built it for him. Also got the card 3 years after getting the ryzen 5 3400G and im super happy with the performance. I got the ryzen 5 3400g during the shortage for the cheap igpu becuase with how bad the prices were i couldnt afford a good gpu during 2024.
Good video and thanks for putting together a realistic setup
I've got a very similar setup to the one you used here, so I appreciate the testing -- except I got my RX6600 $184 US with tax from Amazon (Although I've not seen them that low since). So it really is a decent value for a new card.
I have RX6600 and this gpu is great, was a very noticeable upgrade over gtx 1060.
Still the most efficient card for the price! Really happy with this card.
Very good. Check out the 6650 XT, brand new it's only £220 now!
Picked this card out for my brothers pc when i built it for him. Also got the card 3 years after getting the ryzen 5 3400G and im super happy with the performance. I got the ryzen 5 3400g during the shortage for the cheap igpu becuase with how bad the prices were i couldnt afford a good gpu during 2024. Ended up paying $150 for each card
Don't ever change the music in your videos! The 6600 is a beast for the price!
The 6600 is fantastic
The main problem with modern gaming is the games are horribly optimized and badly written not that most people don't have a beefy enough system to run.
I wish people running benchmarks would also show a snapshot of everything running on your PC. I want to see your task manager and system load--lots of times people are losing computing power to garbage running in the background.
I love budget and mid-range cards because let's face it that's where most of us game. A card like a 6600, or my near identically performing 2060S, can give you 95% of the gaming of top cards, play everything apart from a handful of -shittily optimised- demanding modern games like a dream and doesn't require you to flog a kidney to be able to buy one, and doesn't require a small fission reactor to power it. This 6600 only comes with a recommendation for a 300W PSU making it a great choice for slapping into a pre-built or just a really focussed budget build.
That's is cope. High end cards are affordable in the used market
@@Grayest_Fox
Yeah when newer mid-tier cards come out with similar or greater performance at half the power consumption. I can pick up 2080tis for a little under the price of used 3070s but it doesn't mean I'll buy one. If I needed a space heater I'd consider it, two birds one stone like, but I have central heating so I don't need to.
Bought 1 used for 150 euros and its amazing, can run pretty much any game i want at high 1080p 60fps or more
Got an rx 6600m laptop gpu converted to a desktop card on aliexpress for $165. Only uses 100watts performs the same as an rx6600.
Snagged a red devil 5700xt for 135+ shipping/tax. Been solid so far 🤞
I got an a770 for 250 cad used (bout half the price and some compared to new after tax). Pretty happy with it.
It does have some strange behavior sometimes but you get used to it.
Got that card in the spring this year for £240, it was a great deal then and I can't believe it even got down significantly lower than that. For this price at the current market it is a steal.
This video finally makes me excited for when I decide to upgrade from my Ryzen 1600 / GTX 1060 system
I'm so glad it wasnt me wondering if my gpu had broke playing FM, that game is fucking awfully optimised.
I added the 6650 XT to my son's PC and I'm going to say, price to performance, it's the current king of the hill.
The 6600 is good, but the bump in performance by moving up to the 6650 XT makes it a way better value for the money.
Went with a 6600xt and a 12100f a year ago and have been happy with it.
I remember this card being the same price as the gtx 1660 6gb but performancewise 6600 just trumps it.
I would love to see a revisit to the RX 6700XT👀
The rx 6600 is the modern era rx 580 a true reliable GPU
5600 + 6600 great 1080P I see a rise of people getting it here in Asian market since it’s affordable
My two youngest kids have very similar builds. One has a 5800x/6750xt/32gb pushing 1440p 165hz and the other has 5600x/6600xt/32gb pushing 1440p 180hz.
I just bought the XFX 6750XT for $200 used with box and with even the plastic still on it. The 6600xt was $128 used back in late 2022.
When they play fortnite together in a private creative world his 6750 is darn near twice the performance of the 6600xt. The 6700xt and 6750xt seem to be the best values as I also see plenty of games using well over 8gb vram in game.
bought a new rx 6600 last week around $220 (gpu prices in the Philippines sucks) and the next gpu is around $300 which is a 3060 or a 6700 which is way too expensive for me and i have been enjoying the rx6600 after being stuck with a 1050ti for 2 years
Same scenario here. RX 6600 prices dropped suddenly and I nabbed one. Other better cards are just so expensive still.
The 2 cards I recommend to people right now are the 6600xt and the 6700
And they both can do everything right now
I like the idea of just having an RT pass or fail test. The tech itself is (imo) pointless in its current form. Just having a "can it reach 60 fps at this resolution while RT is maxed" section of the benchmarks would let everyone know if it is worth even trying to turning on.
Sounds like a very good challenge, by those conditions the RTX series would actually loose its RTX. Either way its pointless, ever remember havok and phisix where they would suggest a second card to run phisix.