Insultingly Bad Value: AMD RX 6600 $330 GPU Review & Benchmarks (XFX SWFT)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- AMD's new RX 6600 manages to further cannibalize the PC DIY industry in favor of quick, short-term profits at risk of causing long-term damage. Review and benchmarks within.
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Testing will look at the XFX RX 6600 SWFT vs. the NVIDIA RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti, AMD RX 5600 XT, the RX 6600 XT, and more. In this comparison and benchmark of the AMD RX 6600, you'll see the relative gaming performance and power consumption versus other video cards on the market, helping determine the best gaming GPU for you right now. Although, yes, availability is still transient, the bigger deal is one relating to the longer-term impact to the industry. We'll talk about that in the conclusion at the end.
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The vowel wasn't forgotten, it was just omitted due to a component shortage
Bruh... 🤣😂🤣😂
This comment needs to be pinned to the top.
Letter shortage
Designing this box they should have ommitted a consonant instead: "p(l)ay hard"
Counterfeit vowels like "Y" will be the only options.
The 'S' was added by accident, and the other letters are in the wrong order.
So it's actually the WTF edition.
Personally, I think they were meant to write shit, but it accidentally came out swft.
It is an acronym: “So, We F*cking Tried”.
Well done, my dislyxec brother🤣
Sheet what ta fugue, is this?
Clearly trying to cash in on EVGA's successful FTW editions, by hoping everyone who's willing to pay for it is too stupid to know the difference.
Here we are 8 months later, the 6600 can easily be found for less than $300 while the 3060 still costs around $400 lol
Here in Canada it hovers between 530$CAD to 600$CAD for the RTX 3060, meanwhile the RX 6600 hovers around 420$CAD to 500$CAD, so yeah RX 6600 it is for me, when I upgrade my GTX 1660 Ti but I'll think I may stick to it for a few years.
the power consumption is the best vs performance.
@@jayjwin1178 yeah the RX 6600 consumes less power than the RTX 3060.
$307 for my 6600 while the 3060 goes for $450 at the lowest in my country.
They are more than that now also that card is 279 and the cheaper one is 179 dollars and it is an amazing card for the price
Funny that now the RX 6600 is considered the best value gpu.
yup. reviewers were living in a MSRP fantasy land, and now the price difference is even bigger between 6600 and a 3060.
Bought it today xD
@@noteda6361 i will soon too
What else can you buy for 370€? In my country the 3060 is 500€ and the rx 6600 xt is 470€? Not everyone lives on that fantasy world called America where msrp is actually a thing.
Got one today from best buy for $300 flat. Coming from a 580, I couldn't be happier. 3060 is still either out of stock or above $500.
210 represents the actual value of this card in a standard market.
I thought it was in honor to the all mighty Nvidia gt 210
220$ max. This is a joke for 330$.
Have fun buying a better GPU for $330, today.
@@Demmrir No, I don't think I will.
Truers
Man, so many good candidates for this years “disappointment tour” shirt. Can’t wait.
What a shitty time we live in. Imagine having a year where it would be really hard to find disappointments.
Maybe it should be a onesie? More space on that, and a few ....choice locations 🤔😁
@@tompayne4945 full on adult romper ;)
I hope it has all the issues spawning off a big sphere like a COVID virus thingy
It should just be a webpage. W “We opted for a webpage due to shortages.
Well, video didn't age well at all but I don't blame them. It made sense back then. The RX 6600 is the best value card out right now by a long shot. If you were wondering if you should buy it, my take is just do it. (Unless you REALLY need RTX or CUDA).
6600 is one of the best right now it’s on pair with a 3060 since the drivers have been fix and updated Also it’s on sell right now for $280 and comes with 3 games hopefully people get it while they can
got one new on sale for $240
@@ambulance_bass link pls
I just bought RX 6600 XFX SWIFT210 for 309USD (1470 PLN) in Poland.
@@maciej2695 I got the same one its a really good card for 1080p but with the new amd driver u can upscale games to 4k which looks really good and you get more fps
... and now it's one of the best cards for the money you can buy. Crazy times we live in. 350 for an RX 6600 or 550+ for the RTX 3060... hmmmmmmmmm
I paid 530 for the 3060 Ti Asus Ko 1 month ago...
There are no bad products (other that actually sh*t quality ones that can kill you or your system) just bad prices. Unfortunately this is why some brands will nurse old products for far longer than they should (Chevy Cavalier, OG Ford Ranger, AMD Bulldozer and TeraScale (still have an FX-8350 system with CrossfireX HD 6950s as a space heater in the basement. Still works good tho in Minecraft).
back in 2019 i bought giga 1660 S brand new for 227$ then sold it due to overheating and noise issue .i've just bought MSI Radeon RX 6600 MECH new for 300$ a few days ago and pretty happy with it, crazy world we're living in
@@vuongthien9266 I still have my digital receipt from 2019 when I bought a new 4 GB Sapphire RX 570 off newegg for 97 bucks. 2019, 97 bucks. I had been really watching for a deal since my original "open box" RX 480 died just after 30 days, and that was a deal then. I think retail was like 120. But still.. it is a crazy world. That card came with free stuff too (xbox game pass and others). Ended up giving that RX 570 to somebody that needed a GPU after I found another steal- a used ITX 4GB HP RX 480 for 45 bucks. ITX cards are very under-appreciated, even though admittedly this one has a little of Dawid Does Tech VD when it comes to certain things.
The dog meme saying “this is fine” while everything is on fire is 100% Steve.
I liked the same meme but without the fire around.
It's one of my favorite quotes of Civvie 11, a old-school fps youtuber. Worth a watch if you don't shy away from profanities ^^ In which case you couldn't possibly be a fan of old-schoool fps ^^
"So you end up in this pit full of tanky enemies without ammo and only a crappy shotgun. Ok. It's fine. This is fine. We can do this. They clearly knew what they were doing, sucking my soul out through my ears. It's FINE!"
Can't wait to tell my grandkids about the days when you could buy a GPU for it's normally advertised price.
Hell I remember when you were getting ripped off if it was even THAT expensive.
@@sultanofsick lmao "why buy at MSRP when there's good deals somewhere else"
today MSRP is the good deal
Good for you to be able to afford kids
I just bought a Powercolor Fighter 6600 for the retail MSRP of $329 so...
yea they really should MSRP things more realistically. Like, we should be able to take being a bunch of batch files :D
Price me more daddy!
And now it's considered the best budget gpu
My friend has been running a GTX 750 + FX-8350 bulldozer for nearly a decade, and i have a spare mobo/cpu with a 6700K i7 on hand. Anyway, the 6600 was a nice surprise for what its selling right now vs. the 3060 and even the 6600XT. Hopefully he'll enjoy a good performance boost when i send the 6700K + 6600 to him.
@@AFluffyMobius And now (2023-09-08) the RX 6600 8GB is on Amazon for $210. It should've debuted at $250.
So, performance is only slightly better than a 5600XT, but the power consumption is a lot lower? For those of us working with a small power budget, that's actually a pretty good thing....
So many reviewers fail to take that into consideration. 6600 is 130W vs the 5600 XT at 150W.
Polls show gamers actually do care about TDP. I'm personally fine trading off some FPS for lower board draw.
plus it's actually insanely cheap now when compared to other gpus.
for people who need an upgrade from something like a 1060 this is actually a decent option.
@@thesand8580 It's kinda funny seeing Steve bash this thing when something like a used GTX 1070 is going for nearly the same price, uses more power, and performs worse. The RX6600 is a pretty good value given the market. Acting like this is a bad deal for $300 is in the same realm as being mad that flagship phones now cost $1000. Yeah, it sucks, but that's the reality we live in now. Compared to the rest of the market, this thing is a pretty good buy.
@@SerenoOunce it's not only just a power thing, but also a heat thing...
my room is quite small and in the middle of summer, I can for sure say that the difference in room temperature between my old 75w 1050ti and my new 130w rx6600 isn't small, especially after a few hours...
I can't imagine what it would've been like if I went for the 170w RTX 3060
i would have bought a 5700xt now but the 2x8pin is reminding me of my r9 290 300w tdp so i bought the rx6600m which is just 100w. im running on offgrid solar setup, so i need to watch my power consumption.
16:30 Actually that's a very valid point you are raising. As the "modern" high end graphics card essentially become unobtainable, people will turn to playing older titles, or titles that are graphically less demanding. And there's a shitton of older titles to play. Which may or may not end up meaning that those people who used to play newest titles and upgrade their machines to play newer titles simply stop upgrading. It's not like graphics cards die at the rate at which physical hard-drives used to die, unless certain title is involved.
I still have about 50 PS3-Xbox 360 era games to play, and I've yet to touch any PS4-Xbox One games...so this GPU shortage for games can last until the end of this decade for all I could care, and I'm really just following along for laughs at this point...
My GPU is from 2010 and my specific unit was manufactured in 2012. I bought it this year but it's still going strong after almost a decade 👍
Edit: Bought a PC that came with the GPU.
All for just $30, in case you were wondering why I acquired such old hardware.
I bought an Xbox and have given up on PC gaming for the next 2 years at least. PC gaming is dead until it can come back to planet earth. I still play games on my PC but I don’t buy anything new. I’m just working through my steam library.
Either that or we start seeing AAA titles come out that less graphically intensive.
My 1080 Ti has been getting me through all of this in relative comfort. Finally have had time to knock out some pretty untouched, older titles in my steam library and it's nice to be able to crank everything up and feel like I have a new GPU again. I think this is a good time for PC gamers to slow down and remember that the games are more important than the hardware. If your rig can run the stuff you like at settings you want, who cares if your card is a few generations behind.
Given the current state of the PC gaming market, GN should pivot to focus more exclusively on cat videos without delay.
Purrs per minute on air vs water cooling
@@asdf_asdf948 cats tend to prefer heating I think
Noctua U12A chromax review imminent
Quality content. Rossman has had success with this strategy.
Cat benchmarks
It's kind of surreal how many reviewers absolutely took a shit on this card. I just got one for $374 new from Amazon. It was the only card available with performance similar to a 3060 that was below $400. The 3060 being about $500 itself. It was such a HUGE upgrade over my 1060 6GB. Like double the performance with barely an increase in power consumption. I was so absolutely thrilled to finally be able to get a decent upgrade for under $400 and now that I'm looking up reviews of the card everyone is just talking shit about it. It's just so strange.
In my region (SEA) it's currently very good value, around 20-25% cheaper than the 3060, and is the same price as a 3050 or 1660 SUPERs/TIs. When watching these reviews it's simply better to look at the performance and local pricing then decide for ourselves instead of listening to the conclusion as they often do not experience the buying difficulties we regular consumers do.
Many reviewers are extensively sponsored, thus biased.
Best to consider just the specs and looks and leave their opinion on the product at the door, as that is irrelevant to your specific needs.
I'm gonna buy it because in clean testruns on YT it obliterates everything within its tier, especially nvidia's 1660's, 2060's and 3050's.
They don't actually play the games either. They run automated simulations and look at numbers that have nothing to do with the overall gaming experience relative to the price paid.
People who actually play the stuff are like, "It'll work if it's the card you can afford and get your hands on now. If you've never played with everything on ultra settings all maxed out, you won't miss it, and quite frankly, even if you have, there's a lot of stuff in the game you can disable that you still won't miss much (if at all). Sometimes the extra shading and noise is actually pretty distracting.
Disable some proprietary shadows or other spectral/shading effects, use a $200 cheaper card that is actually in stock, comes with decent warranty, end up with a cooler/quieter and more efficient running rig, and still get a very impressive gaming experience? Fine by me!
End up underclocking/volting stuff the majority of the time anyway. Don't game 24/7...need the computer for all sorts of things that don't need the graphics card to keep running full steam, and the regular XR6600 is a good card in that respect.
before you read, just know i just got this card. i think all you guys missed the point. the problem here is that the previous generations provided far more price to performance than these cards ever did. now you might compare fps and go "thats not true" but thats a flawed way of comparing because as time goes on, and technology improves, games also become harder to run. so the main point is- for the games of that time, the cards these companies offered were far more accessible to consumers and each generation provided meaningful upgrades- not just in performance but also value. for 300 dollars you could have gotten the equivalent of an RTX 3070 back then. thats the problem. yes there are external factors at play here but its also something that is almost certainly being taken advantage of by AMD and Nvidia.
@@RageArtEnthusiast we didn't miss it, we just aren't trying to attract views by "giving it to the man" like most youtubers do. That point would've been entirely valid if we weren't in the situation we are now, but the reality is different. Would it have been nice if the generational improvement is better? Sure, but it is what it is and it needs to be judged for what it is, not what it should've been. There is no changing the fact that this card's price:performance is currently one of the best and the initial reviews subjectively painted a more negative picture.
Now im 2023 its £180 and its one of the best cards to buy for 1080p ??? Twist of irony there huh
And the 3060 12GB is still £280-320 ??
SWFT is an acronym for Soon We'll Forget This.
dont forget adding SWFTly
Hmm, about a week or so ago I bought a new 6600… and wouldn't you know it, it was a SWFT210.
"So AMD then has picked up the money gun that Nvidia just put down after it got bored of it, and will now be spraying money out of its own rear end. Much like a hippo would do when it has to go to the bathroom!" - Steve's descent into madness continues lol
It’s effective cooling. Nature inspired
@@pietrmuffei8874 or he’s got a massive infection due to the bs “chip shortage” that is RUINING the pc enthusiast market.
If Intel doesn't make sure that ARC is priced properly and use these quotes from Steve in their marketing, they are absolutely incompetent.
I think he's spot on to use colourful metaphors.
@@Akkbar21 Parts shortages have long since touched virtually every industry in the world, it's not limited to PC components. I do board level PCB repair and getting once dime a dozen parts like capacitors, transistors and mosfets has become an absolute nightmare. Even the ubiquitous 74xx logic chips that have been around more than 50 years are getting ridiculous to find. To get 12 different 74xx parts for a customer a month or so ago, I had to go to five different suppliers before I found one that had what I needed.
But even outside the electronics industry, shortages in materials and labor are compounding everywhere.
The AMD RX “Time to Find a New Hobby” edition.
Also known as the "might as well spend my time finding an XBOX" edition. I might quit gaming before I do that...but I'm old now and that might be the option I choose. My last console purchase was a Nintendo Wii. Before that a N64.
I hope things turn around, but it's sad to see PC gaming at this current state. I won't pay over $500-600 for a video card in a shitty market or a normal market. I won't pay more than a console in one part alone. I won't have a worse machine for more money than a console to play 90% games, 10% shit I could do on a shitty laptop. That's it, full stop. That has been my entire 20 years of PC gaming. I have enough money that I could, but I won't. Seeing people toss $ at this shit just makes me sad. I guess my line in the sand is deep and old...but I fear my line getting crossed is also going to be the death of PC gaming.
Sadly this is exactly what I did. Even considering I know an owner of a PC store in my city and have gotten GPUs from him for the price he pays to his suppliers for my friends, the stagnation from Nvidia and AMD have forced me to really stop paying attention to the PC space and move more into the car space.
@@y0bailey I've only been PC gaming for 7 years but I have cancer and may not be able to fill out the 13 to make it to your situation. I hope I will be but still. I'm getting a 6600 for $700 because it's pretty much my only option. I'll just close my eyes and pretend I'm getting a 980Ti. Which was one of my options when I first built my PC with an R9 380 which I'm still using.
Steve’s “handling” of that swift box makes me smile.
yes, i had vide of feeling like Rey when she gives Luke his lightsaber 'back'...was gonna happen, lol ;)
i never thought the industry would get like this, pretty mind blowing. I have a 1070. Wish I had something a little better, but I think i'll be holding onto it for a while
I have a 970, but I wasn't ripped off when I got it...What garbage we are now inundated with from these mfgs...
1060 SSC here, be holding on to that for a while as well given the current market, a friend was looking at a 3060 variant at around £600 the other week and i said dont just dont
Keep your eye out, managed to get a 3070TI FE just a little over MSRP...We are so being screwed right now! Fingers crossed for you.
@@outerheaven1000 all i can say is. Few months ago all the gamers were hoping for pricing and avilibility. Those who paid scalper prices back then still paid less than how much they cost today lol
3080 today = same price as 3090 on launch
@@mikeymaiku ya its a case of saving up as much as he can and holding out on finding the right card at the right price
The Corporate world is absolutely LOVING this "Chip Shortage".
I feel like anyone selling a gaming PC part other than a graphics card is going to see reduced demand
Talking about "shortage"... nvidia is planning on doing the ultimate scumbag move of halting production at the end of this month cause they made their profit goal. to keep prices and demand high. this is getting REALLY pathetic th-cam.com/video/hH-W-zVcjNQ/w-d-xo.html
yeah 90% of their sales are scalpers but they don't care.
@@Knaeckebrotsaege wtf they already stopped production of 3000 series?
Almost as if there was no incentive to fix the chip shortages.
I'm sorta amazed that $330 was considered a bad price for this card only 3 months ago
@min yi 430$ now
$570 here is a steal price, considering that 6600xt is $720 on average.
@@ridleyroid9060 what country are you in? There are 6600XTs for $499 on amazon in the USA
360 not including tax
300$ lmao
This year's "disappointment tour" t-shirt is gonna be a hoodie and jog pants set, fully printed...
jumpsuit with cape
Thank you Steve for the XFX SPDSTR SWFT 210 MD RDN™ RX 6600 XT GMNG GRPHCS CRD test.
Back to you, Steve!
Thx Stv
With each new GPU release I get happier and happier that I decided to buy my 1660 super for 250 buckaroonies back in 2020
Same here, just with a 5700 for 300 €urons at around easter last year.
I bought a 1660Ti for $280 in 2019, and a 3060 for $380 in 2021... roughly 50% more performance for 50% more money... wasn't any kind of "poor choice" because I just gave my son the 1660Ti... one purchase was an upgrade for everyone in the house.
I'm incredibly lucky to have gotten my 1650 Super for $194 in late Nov of 2020. The 1660/Supers were already out of stock unfortunately.
I was considering that myself but decided against it. I was entirely too naive and optimistic. So, now I'm just glad that my old 1060 continues to work admirably and keep my fingers crossed that it'll last till things even out a little.
Here in Indonesia, as of August 2022, we can buy an RX 6600 at around the same price as in the US (around $260), while for an RTX 3060 we must pay ~$65 extra than what people pay in the US. To buy a graphic card at the same price as in the US, that's very rarely happen. We always must pay a bit extra. So yea, the RX 6600 is the best value for money/performance right now
Just bought this card for $300, seems like a great deal, getting solid 1080p gaming and it looks like it’s on par with a 3060. Im coming from integrated graphics (5600g) so this will be an amazing upgrade
Request: Can the next GPU review be 15mins of Steve saying "Stick with your old graphics card. Unless it's broken"? Not even looped - I'd like different intonations as the video goes on. It would have artistic value as well as consumer advice.
What if your old video card is a 1030... or 710?
Some people really need to upgrade.
Not everyone can wait!
@@wolfshanze5980 In that sort of case, I think finding something like a good local deal on a used GTX 960 might be one of the better options. It's a massive upgrade from the likes of a 1030 or 710, still plays plenty of games acceptably when appropriate basic settings are chosen, and while you'll still be getting taken for a ride on price in the market, at least you'll be saving more of your money for the future when the market hopefully improves.
Lol, like on Red Dwarf, Holly telling Dave everyone is dead in increasingly different variations th-cam.com/video/shs7VQhVvxA/w-d-xo.html
@@wolfshanze5980 These are extreme cases. I think no one in their good mind actually buys this range of graphics cards for good gaming/true gaming. Chances are you've been tricked into buying one of these or someone else who didn't have tech knowledge got it for you. For everyone else who gets mostly good cards, even sticking to a GTX 650 Ti would do the job if your standards are not too high. I've been rockin' an old GTS 450 1GB 900MHz since my main rig broke, playing from Valorant (FPS range 60-100) to GTA V (40-55FPS) with no problems whatsoever
@@wolfshanze5980 Dude, if you have a 710 or 1030 you were fucked way before you got to this point. That's like saying you need to get to the doctor RIGHT NOW because your sinus cold was making you cough and hurting the hernia you've had for 6 years but never bothered seeing about.
God bless $50 i found in my pocket in 2019 when I wanted to buy 1660 and bought 2060 instead
True story. I bought a 1080 in 2019 just as a stop gap and now it's all I'll have for at least another year or two.
LMAOO
@@crispy9175 I got a 2070 super a few months before the 3070 was announced. At first I was sad I didn't wait. Now I'm so happy I got it.
@Ysabela arthas does not approve this spam
@@GodZefir if I could go back I'd stock up in ammo, graphics cards, and toilet paper. Lol.. what a crazy timeline. Let's go Brandon!
I bought the 6600 to replace my 1050ti, pretty good decision I think. Getting great fps in every game I play. COD Vanguard I’m getting 145fps. Apex Im getting over 200 at high settings.
Same here although I’m still planning. I can sell my RX 580 for the price I got it and save a bit to get the 6600 so I can play Apex at 120+fps. my rx 580 fluctuates between 120-80 fps and it’s getting annoying when it dips
@@milanfan81 why not upgrade your ram? Having higher hz ram, and more of it, keeps up your 1% lows better. Also 80fps is perfectly fine for fps. There is a point of diminishing returns past certain fps on games.... I mean, as long as your monitor is higher than your gpu's fps can handle, 80fps is very well playable.
As mentioned though, if you are seeing big dips in fps like 120 down to 80 in spikes, then you need higher hz ram.
I am running -
5800x (no need for more than 8 cores) for games
6600xt power color red devil variant
16gb G-Skill Neo Trident 3800Mhz CL-14
My lows are 150fps on wot, when straionary it can go up to 600fps lol.
Playing cold war I get 150 too, up to 200 but spikes are not even seeable, at least I don't notice them when playing. Its around 188fps most of the time on nuke town 24/7.
Way more than I need.
I think for 1920x1080p 45-60 fps is ok
I think for 1440p 80fps - 100 is ok
I think for 4k then 60 is a must.... no doubt.
Other wise you will lose quality as the games fps dips etc.
yo me too, going from the 1050ti to this is a godsend
Really I get less fps?? Did you get the xt edition? I got the rx 6600 ryzen5 3600 16gb and it feels like a great upgrade from my gtx1650 super .. I can play games at 2650 x 1440 on warzone battle royal 95-115 rebirth 120-150 on low setting looks beautiful.. apex I get 150+ on low settings 1440 as well.. for now I paid $380 mspr $330 didn’t feel too scammed lol
@@jmazda6v6 well he proly plays at 1080 not 1440p there isnt really a reason to play at 1440p the jump isnt qorth the performance drop
If the prices came down, if this was priced like an RX 570 was used just a couple years ago, the value would be huge. At this price point, that is just insulting. GPUs have been way too high for the last while.
I bought an RX480 at around £200.
I can't believe that almost 5 years later there is still nothing in that price\performance bracket.
I really hope Intel comes in with some low ball pricing to make "Good enough" 1080p an option again.
intel: $9k for a 1030 lol
If we were in a less shitty timeline, the 6600 and 6600XT would probably be $200 and $250 respectively
My 480 is still running strong I just hope it doesn’t die on me :(
I mean a GTX 1650 is an upgrade on that if it were at MSRP. Which unfortunately it is not at...
@@JinghisKhan a 1650 is 19% slower than an RX 480, per TechPowerUp
Every time I watch or read anything about a new GPU, I know I am really watching a fictional story. We all know these things are mythical anyways.
like unicorn crap, but just as functional and smelly.
they apparently were pretty well stocked for most of the day. Still beats what nvidia is trying to pull.
I've bought a 3070 and a 6800XT both during this drought. It's not impossible. Getting a 3080 is hard though.
Getting them close to their msrp is most likely never gonna happen
you could grab one on amazon for only 420 thats not too bad
This Review didnt age too well. Best value GPU right now for full HD
Yep, this review aged like spoiled milk.
doesnt change the fact that you dont get more for your money than a couple of years ago its still a horrible card for the price
Funny thing is that now at $270 it is the best value available right now.
$215 on newegg for black Friday lol
@@PloutosPlays plus two free games valued at $119 lol
@@101toz exactly lol, callisto protocol was a bust but ill def take dead island 2 when it finally releases lol
@@101toz i'm literally pushing 100 FPS minimum on Cyberpunk Ultra 1080p modded with reshades, 50-70 fps with ultra + reshade+ raytracing. very happy with the price to performance of the rx 6600, especially since I came from a 5600xt lmao
The vowel worldplay throughout the review is genius, especially leaving out just one letter
Had me rolling
I can't see GPU prices going down anytime soon. Now that the two monopolists recognized that people will buy at these prices, i guess they will try to maintain the price. Even if component availability goes back up.
Yup!
Well, Intel is trying to Push into the market.
If you think about it if these companies raised the prices to scalper levels themselves then it would slow down sales scalpers would back off they could recover supplies and once sales started to decline they could lower prices and have stock
oh no, wait!! the Gpus are not "things" who vanish in some cases, like drugs^^..
in few month everyone has his gpu and dont need overpriced gpus!
the prices go down, this is not the point!
the point is, how long does it take and how long your gpu survive!
@Eric ohh we getting into nvidia and amd being the scalpers ideas now.
I know I'm beating a dead horse, but wow pascal was a God tier generation of GPU for price / perf
Still using my 970 well enough for the most part at 1080p 60fps at medium settings. I wanted to upgrade this generation but GPUs now are basically a joke. Let’s hope next gen is a better value but I doubt they will make that mistake again
Pascal is the Sandy Bridge of Nvidia GPU mvps
@@Aleph-Noll ha I wish, my 970 keeps crashing when running games because it's so old and I'm not shelling out for these overpriced underperforming cards I've just had to stop PC gaming which kinda of sucks.
@@vhateverlie Maybe clean it ? It could also be a driver problem. I'm dure there's a solution, mine works fine.
@@vhateverlie yeah im gonna wait to upgrade. i got plenty of old games to catch up on
GPU acquisition flowchart: Does your old GPU still work? Yes -> Keep using it, No -> Get the cheapest used thing that can run your games at an acceptable setting and that is actually available to buy
Acceptable is completely subjective though. If for example, I were to suddenly be in need of a graphics card and had to buy used, I would have to look for either a 1080 Ti or a 2080 and I can't imagine those would be that much cheaper $ to performance right now than just biting the bullet and either lucking out and finding a 3080 at a retail store with an inflated price tag or buying from a scalper. Any way you slice it, I would have to shell out a metric crapload of money to get a card that would be able to give me performance at an acceptable level. Sure if all you play are the current popular multiplayer garbage games then you could do with less since those tend to be optimized a bit better, but if those aren't the kinds of games you play then you need a beast of a machine to maintain a solid 4k60
of course that an entry to med gpu would be in that situation the way to go ... Because of all the big muscle gpu s being used in mining and all that ..by buying an med gpu like for ex an gtx 1650 or 970 or 980 or amd rx 480 till 590 ... you d have a chance to loose lesser money than if buying an high end gpu used ... and than maybe see that it is fucked .. .
The cheapest thing is a GT710 then nothing else is cheap. THERE IN LIES THE PROBLEM!!!!
Brah my GTX970 constantly crashes to the point it'll crash while working in power point. No way in hell am I paying $400 for a damn GTX1070 that's probably going to do the same thing.
@@vhateverlie The 1070 was a hell of a lot better card than the 970. I've owned both. The 970 was a clear step up from my 560 Ti but I was extremely surprised by how much better the 10 series card were over that. I've owned a 1070, 1080, and 1080 Ti all with 0 problems. The 560 Ti and 970 also ran fine, though I know the 970 wasn't as good as it was originally advertised to me as being.
People used to praise amd for being good value, but now that they have caught up they’re prices have gone up to ridiculous levels
Yeah i was like 330 ain bad bu then i relize its basically a 2060 and paying 330 for a 2060 is fucking insane, a 3060 should be 330
And it's ridiculous when you think that they still lack a good encoder, a good productivity performance, and the RT performance, making even worse than Nvidia when it comes to value
And the fun thing is that AMD still is the price king with these prices... sigh...
@@gerhardsmith7892 Nvidia didn't make any RTX 3060s so what's your point? AMD is basically competing with themselves. Streat price for an RTX 3060 is like $700.
@@screwb1882
Look at the steam hardware survey before embarrassing yourself buddy
Now i regret not getting a 5700XT when i got the chance.
Sold my 5700XT, and oh boy i regret that decision
I’m not regretting getting my 3070 when I had the chance. Got it at MSRP. Now I’m regretting not getting two of them.
Yeah, and I got one, turned out to be a great decision. It's perfectly fine at 1440p gaming even now, but I also sold it for a very good price and got 6700xt, so a very good purchase overall.
I’m surprised it wasn’t selling like hot cakes. 2070 Super performance for $100 off and lower power/heat output? It’s also aged well and performs even better than at launch.
I had a 1080ti so it wasn’t an upgrade for me but if you had anything less capable it made a lot of sense. RT/DLSS is good but it’s still not everywhere and game changing, other than Metro Exodus, so 5700XT would have been awesome for most people.
@RO me and the wife went and camped out at micro center……. I could have gotten two. She would have had to wait in line with me but it was probably something I was willing to do if I knew it was going to be like this now. Lmao!
I would love to see GN review this again at $200/210 and see if their opinion changes. They apparently had no issues with the card itself (works fine, does what it claims) but thought $330 was insulting bad value. But does that change at $200 or even below?
I just bought on for the kids pc, down to £165 this week for a new card. At that price it's great
This card is available at MSRP today. May 7 2022
Aaaand the retail models sell for as much as 6600XTs did mere hours ago, while those prices have gone up.
Jesus christ.
AMD is just grabbing a bigger piece of the scalping pie, as is Nvidia with their Tie/Super lineup.
The supply chain disruptions can't end quickly enough.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 only one that must end is the supply of money to their wallets. Then we can talk about prices.
2014 performance for 2021 price - sold!
Meanwhile, back in reality...
In 2014 the best card you could get was the 980. (The 980ti and Maxwell Titan launched in early 2015.)
The 980 is roughly as performant as the 1060 6GB... which this outpaces with about 1.5-2x the performance.
The 980 was also almost twice the MSRP.
I just got one of these for $220 new and i'm very happy with it. especially with AMD's smart access memory which gives it a 10% boost for no other effort than updating the BIOS.
Thank you sincerely for the dry humor today Steve. Much needed
There's only one word to describe this card and I'm gonna spell it out for ya... S A W F T..... Saaawwwwft!
Oh hell now
Wow how the times have changed
Badda boom, realest waste of money in the room, HOW YOU DOIN’!
@@littlemacisunderrated412 Literally just laughed out loud at that hahahah
Clenched my teeth so hard after reading this.
This card could have been great at $200, especially in mass quantities.
$200 would've been reasonable if there wasn't a worldwide GPU shortage. Thanks to the shortage, some models of these RX6600 cards even at $430+ (which is $100 over MSRP), have already sold out on a lot of places.
what suck is now that the card is sold at the inflated MSRP price, it will also sell higher at the scalper price.
@@Intranetusa You are lucky... the cheapest 6600 in romania is 700 euros ...
@@cosminlesutan3574 Damn, that sucks.
Since January 2020 (launch of 5600xt)
Fuel increase 140%
Steel increase 170%
Logistic increase 250%-400%
Good video thank you i have a question though does the 6600 have to be paired with a b550 and 5000 series ryzen or would a b450 and 3600 allow it to get all the performance as heard ages ago about the 6000 series needing pcie 4 so that would rule out the b350 boards
Could you show how you test power consumption on video cards? Love to see that vid
I remember a quote from Quark on DS9 which is similar to "Progress and long term stability isn't nearly as important as short term quarterly gains". Honestly the human race as a whole lives this way. The current GPU market is like an artistic interpretation of our civilisation.
Quarterly gains are everything.
I mean thats capitalism and I know that somehow i'll get downvoted but yeah its all about quarterly gains and promotions, then its someone else's problem
yeah, going down the toilet quickly.
People really want to shit on NVIDIA but AMD has easily released the worse price to perform cards of this generation. Is this thing slower then amds own 5700???
This is an abomination.
because the youtube audience is obsessed with simping for AMD
tHeY aRe oUr sAvIoUrS
Glad to see things are being put in perspective in terms of cost/performance.
amd and nvidia tactics in summary
1.) Give good price to performance for mid to high end cards
2.) Give the enthusiast cards ridiculous prices with little improvement in performance
3.) Destroy the budget category with trash cards, which will force consumers to buy the higher end cards. genius
You got n.3) wrong... Like he says in the video. Budjet consumers will drop the interest and find other ways to play/spend time. Consoles, hand held consoles, android gaming in smartphones or tablets, or just spending time watching twitch... #moneyisking no matter what! This companys just have to double theyr $ regardless.
I’d actually like to see a video where GN goes through the 2000/3000 series and finds the proper price the cards should be at based on an average of FPS/$$ or something. I think it would be interesting to know where GN finds the true value of these cards
That value your asking them to look for is subjective.
yeah the MSRP, except for the fact that AIBs and retailers can't stick to that either.
@@mikeymaiku if you read carefully, I asked to see where GN finds the value of the cards. I know it was subjective. I would like their opinion.
@@mikeymaiku It is not subjective, you just need a ton of information, which are just not readily available.
You have a stable point which ended with the 2000 series introduction by nvidia.
Even tho we had increases in processing power (10% like clockwork, right nvidia) we also had a kinda steady increase in price.
The problem will be the information about the manufacturing costs itself. As just more power does not justify an increase whatsoever if the manufacturing didn´t also increased.
@John Dillermand as with the last comment, I specifically asked for where GN finds the true value of these cards based on a measurable metric of performance. I’ve been through economics, and I understand the “value” of a product is whatever the consumer is willing to pay.
In Spain it is selling at $750 (not eBay, but regular stores). That's just insane. Abysmal product at that price.
The cards this generation really do suck. Even at msrp it’s a rip off. And you can’t even get it at that!
Do you plan on launching a bigger version of the modmat (let's say about 1500mm x 900mm)? Whilst the current dimensions are not small, I'm sure a certain demographic, I included, would appreciate an ever larger modmat.
Bought an rx 6600 for $260 a couple days ago. I’m a happy customer! Everything I’ve tried has gotten 60fps or more, and overwatch 2 runs at 165fps smoothly on high. Actually the one exception to that is cyberpunk 2077. BUT, after looking at my gpu & cpu usage, my CPU is actually the bottleneck in cyberpunk! Guess my old i7-4790k ain’t enough to cut it anymore. Some areas in Cyberpunk I see 100% cpu usage with about 70% gpu usage. And in those areas framerates dip to about 40fps. I think this card got a really bad wrap just bc everyone was pissed off at the pandemic market. 🤷🏻♂️
It wasnt worth it as MSRP, it's worth it at actual market price now. And yeah Im bottlenecked by my 7700k now. Kinda knew it would happen in some games but didnt think it would impact me this much.
I got one too. I had rx 570, now with 6600 sometimes more than double the performance. I never imagined running Last of Us 60 plus frames, hitting 80 and 90 on ultra, high details.
If I wanted to get into PC gaming and saw the prices of the GPUs I would turn around and go buy a console instead.
@Gareth Tucker They dont even care. They have other things to do.
@Gareth Tucker Good, we need a gaming crash because the state of gaming has been pitiful the past decade.
@@comicsans1689 - Agreed. The quality of games over the past decade has been pretty appalling IMHO. Certainly don't warrant spending ludicrous amounts of money for what dross we've been getting. Better off with a last gen console (back when they were actually good, like the 360 and PS3. Oh to be back then!)
Just mine your money back.
Just bought an Xbox Series S for $300.
I have given up on the market at this point, hope my 1080ti will last a few more years.
I ran my 660Ti all the way till last year
Currently the rx6600 you can get for about 300-350 euro. The rx580 was like 200-250 euro back when I bought one like 4 years ago. So right now it seems like very good value compared to buying other new cards or a second hand 580/1070 or something.
It's amazing how a card that can run 99.5% of games at 1080p 100+fps and 4K 60+fps is considered "bad," because it can't run 0.5% of games (poorly optimized and bad AAA 3rd person action adventure games like Cyberpunk. Games most PC gamers don't even want to play) at 60fps on Ultra settings.
AMD just wanted to fill in some of the space at the bottom end of benchmark charts. They have good intentions
It do be get lonely down there sometime.
Interesting to see Jay and Steve have such strikingly different takes on this release. Good to hear some different perspectives
Jay is very uncritical of companies. I wouldn't trust any reviews from him as far as I could pick up a car and throw it. He makes good content for entertainment but that's about it
Jay is an idiot and has horrible takes 80% of the time.
Regardless of what everyone is saying about this card it is an actual beast, paired with a Ryzen 7 5800x and it slaps in any game I tested it. Ultra-Nightmare 1440p on Doom Enteral? No problems. Halo Infinite at 1080p high settings? No problems. Got it for 319 dollars at best buy. Best deal for the performance tbh.
you could have bought basically the same product for CHEAPER almost 3 YEARS ago. regardless of what you say, it's terrible value product and you are getting screwed.
@@nikolayivanov9539 So? I am going to get a decades use out of this thing as 1440p on Unreal Engine 5 does amazing. You have no say in what I upgrade. I came from an RX 550 4GB reference card that could barely run certain roblox games let alone the games I mentioned. And our family is quite poor so 319 for a GPU ain't bad seeing what the more modern flagship prices are. I am quite happy with it and you have no say in that. Infact, I am purchasing this for my dad to run his new Evil Dead game he bought as he is running the RX 550 too and the game barely runs on his system. My brother runs a slightly older version an RX 5700 that still holds up to this day. Do not see anything wrong with the RX 6600. I'd say money well spent. And what I mean by my family being poor is buisness taxes. We make pretty good money but since my father is a Owner-Operator for a trucking company which I won't name, we have to pay business tax in the USA which is like 20 grand for sone ungodly reason.
I dare you to redo this comparison TODAY
At this rate, with how expensive tech is getting, it looks like it was a good idea to keep my AGP graphics cards.
And here I thought keeping a 7770 Ghost was saying something. Bravo!
Or maybe quit gaming and touch grass
Definitely a man of culture 👌
because you want to play doom3 at almost 60fps 800x600?
@@arch1107 640*480 on an FX5200 ;)
So much for AMD being the alternative to Nvidia's price gouging and stagnate growth. It's a race to the bottom at this point.
AMD has never been the good guy alternative to the industry bad guys. The only reason they haven't been as scummy for as long is because they literally couldn't. When your products suck so much you can't make a compelling argument as to why someone should ever buy one, you resort to pity points. As soon as AMD could sell their product based on its own merit, they dropped the act.
@@XDSDDLord The "fanboys" will never comprehend this, though!
Maybe you dumb AMD fanbois will now realise that AMD is just a company
NOT YOUR FRIEND
@@Freestyle80 chill out man, even if they _were_ a fanboy, there is no need to insult them. That said, it's pretty clearly they are *not* a fanboy because they were _criticizing_ AMD in the comment. It's not immoral to hope that a company would do the right thing, even if that hope is a little naive.
Ah, you're talking about the value-brand hole. Once you become known as a value brand you need to sell a better product at a lower price to get any recognition at all.
When you are stuck deep in the value-brand hole, it's hard to gather enough money for R&D so your entire process becomes efficiency and repeatability.
If you can make a breakthrough, get some brand recognition in the market, at some point you reorganize and start to raise prices to pay your bills and do more research.
SO yeah, they're making money while they can...and to some degree I think Radeon prices are being guided by Ryzen valuation and people saying "all AMD system".
In the meantime we've gone from AMD launching a single design as their entire hope in the CPU market, to pooping out new SKUs and configurations for various markets.
If AMD holds on and grows we may see some long-term brand parity and price competition but other parts of the market need to improve first before prices settle down.
Ethically and in terms of sympathy, rising prices are not kind to lower budgets. From a business perspective, this is raising money to invest in long-term survival.
Mr Burke, cann I buy that 6600 from you? Thanks for the great comparisons!
if this is bad value, then what is the 3050?
So my 1060 can happily continue to punch out it's medium setting frames with no concern that it's about to be cast aside.
Still rocking a GTX 960 that's quickly approaching 7 years old. I see no need to update, as even replacing my card with another used one will cost me about $150-$200.
mine pushes high/ ultra settings at 60FPS with a lowr res and strong pc behind .... fuck u amd / nvidia, still waiting for a FAST 120W tgp gpu.
I paid $330 for my RTX 2060 at the end of 2018. Almost 3 years ago. So this thing costs just as much as a 3 year old card and still barely beats it?
AMD knows ethereum miners will buy it at whatever price.
I changed the comment to "barely beats it" since technically it comes out a couple % ahead overall... But this is what I would call trading blows... With a 3 year old card that had the same launch price.
@@MrNside Meanwhile I'm sitting on a 2016 GTX 1080 (non-Ti) that cost me 555eur and was (excluding the Titan) the top of the line at the time.. These days I'd (theoretically) get a mid range GPU that's barely an upgrade for that price... if any were available without price gouging. If I wanted something that solidly beats it and will last me some time, I'd have to pay 1.2 kiloeuros upwards. Let's just say I'm now babying my card like never before because in the current market, I simply can't afford to spend as much as a cheap used citycar on a damn GPU upgrade
@@Knaeckebrotsaege
I feel bad because in early 2020 I told a few people they should wait to upgrade their GPU because RDNA 2 was going to force Nvidia to lower their prices for midrange to higher-end cards. I was right... For about 5 seconds...
I paid my radeon VII $720 back in 2020 and RTX 2060s $335 back in 2018. This was before the price of GPU started kicking up. For now I'm keeping my radeon 7 and I will not upgrade since it is still great for my A.I projects (it can even out perform 6600xt in terms of performance and maybe 6900xt as well despite it being vega and not RDNA), as well as my 2 RTX 2060s (I won the other one in a raffle promo)....
When this got released one shop here in Finland sold PowerColor Fighter RX6600 at 349€, they got sold quickly and now they are over 500€
Bought it for $185. Seems decent. What a difference a year makes
Bro howd you got that very low price
@@calebsmith254 microcenter had for $200 and I got a free $15 coupon from them for first time purchase
@@calebsmith254 Probably newegg deals. I saw it for $190, I bought a 6650 XT for $230.
@@joshholmes1372 am planning to buy it but i read in reviews many people got un working one or broke in first day so i want to ask how its going so far
@@mahdihoussem3925 a 6600? Works well for 1080p gaming. Playing Witcher 3 next gen update now and works great.
07:02 just look at that stacking of GPU performance between 40-50fps, with a new card being thrown in there about every year and with a higher msrp!
I bet next year there will be 3 new cards there!!... hahaha
I mean it's Cyberjunk, it's just amazing how poorly this game is optimized
It's the crysis of our generation
I wish there were reviewers this honest in other niches, you guys are rad.
Please do a review of the crosshairs viii extreme.
I went into my local computer shop today. Was shocked to see that they actually had graphics cards in stock!!! Two PowerColor Radeon RX 6600 Hellhounds adorned the shelf. Price: 600€ (that's 483€ without VAT). In U$ that's 666$ (540$).
ok, the value of this card sucks, so I'll wait until next gen of cards in 2022. When there will be another mining boom, scalpers will do their thing, the mrsrps of every card will still be hideous and Intel who has to bring competition will do exactly what the other two are already doing.
Mining, boom, my guy? Ethereum will update to PoS soon, mining will become way less profitable and way more financially dangerous. Don't expect seeing a mining boom like this again any time soon after Casper.
@@evertonc1448 I hope you're right and I'm very ignorant about mining and what proof of stake means and what it could mean for the gpu market. Altough the fact that both Amd and Nvidia for next gen are going to put out gpus that looking at the rumours should be have the biggest jump in performance ever (that will probably also be extremely expensive) makes me think that they think that tons of people are ready to buy cards that will probably cost more than two thousand dollars, which make me fear that they think that mining will still be profitable on graphic cards...
Plot twist. They lost more than one letter. It's So We Failed To Improve. They only had the SWFT bits
If you can figure out where to buy this cpu cooler. Please test this out just cause of the concept. Alseye 120D W. It's an air/liquid cooler combo. They have two new versions coming out but why not try out their first gen. Would be really interesting to see how the temps are in general.
Lovin' all the new comments questioning the "terrible value" perspective they have.
It's gotten to the point where just stealing a card doesn't seem that unreasonable to me anymore.
Had i had access to either company's factories i definitely would.
"You wouldn't download a car!"
Idk that or a video card sounds pretty reasonable now
Agreed
@Ysabela What a nice young lady
@@1.minted52 I think they are following me. I’m not kidding. They reply to almost all my comments.
"Spraying the money gun like a hippo's behind when it goes to the bathroom." Yup, pretty much sums out AMD and Nvidia's game plan. Zero Fs given about delivering value to consumers, just make as much money come out the other end as possible.
How much does AMD and NVIDIA charge for the GPUs? You take the GPU, mount it on the PCB, add the VRAM, connectors, then the cooling. So, out of the cost to make a video card, is the actual GPU chip more or less than the combined cost of all of those other components?
The real problem is that if AMD and NVIDIA are estimating the actual costs to manufacture incorrectly, or underestimate how expensive it will be to distribute the cards, then everything will be wrong when it comes to the price.
If you were those companies, would you just sell at way below current market prices and let scalpers keep more than a third of the actual price people pay?
@@tifforo1 Depends on whether the company is actually serious about "GPUs are for gamers" in which case it would do whatever is necessary to make life difficult for scalpers and miners or is just saying it as PR BS, in which case you jack up the prices to whatever they stop instantaneously running out of stock at..
@@tifforo1 It isn't as cut and dry as you make it out to be. GPU makers sell the chips to video card makers. Those video card makers traditionally ONLY sell to distributors(you can't buy a Sapphire video card direct from Sapphire for example, it MUST go through a distributor.
From that point of view, there aren't multiple prices the cards get sold by them for, other than if an OEM buys in large quantities, and even then, it might require over 1000 of the video card before the video card maker will consider directly selling the card to anyone other than the distributor(s) they sell to.
Does the price comparison factor in tariffs?
Update from the future. RX 6600 is $200 with a copy of Starfield, so $130 if you were intending to buy Starfield anyway. Seems like the price it should have launched at :S
"it's not exploding, catching on fire - we haven't had it short circuit, from that respect it's good!"
Tell people in 1985 that this is serious feedback from a computer hardware journalist in 2021 they'd wonder how many world wars we've lived through. Sad what's going on in the market, feels post-apocalyptic
Look, they're killing the midrange, like they're killing the middle class.
I helped my friend build his, first in a long time, gaming PC. He's using one of my old cards, because you would have to be crazy to buy, if you don't have to. RX 580s are more than 2.5x what they cost years ago, and more than what I paid for my 1080 Ti three and a half years ago.
Got one of these for $229 after Thanksgiving, NOW it's priced right 👏
Got a 6650 XT at that price on thanksgiving day. But yeah, low $200s is a fair price for it. $330 wasnt. Just needed a 33% price reduction to make it worth it.
This video aged like milk...
I think in the future you may want to focus testing on a price tier up and a price tier down as well as within the same price bracket. I'm not really sure why the 3080 and 6800 cards are on this chart. The 6600 won't come anywhere close to that. That screen real estate would IMO be better spent on seeing how this card also compares to the sub $300 cards like the 1660 line.
This gpu, chip shortage issue in general issue, and with prices and unavailability has all but ruined the pc enthusiast market. I wouldn’t recommend getting into it to my worst enemy. They’d be better off with a heroin habit.
It’s not only the pc market. All these bozo politicians have pushed stupid legislation that shuts our logistics down. Increased fuel costs, testing, mandates, passes, truck bans. A lot of things have been ruined.
Just buy a prebuilt from ironside PCs. They have all cards in stock.
Imma pick up a dope rig with a 3080 for less then 2500
@@blackfacegaming191 just get butt rammed by a SI?! No thx
Before anyone clutches their pearls about the heroin reference… I’m a recovering heroin addict. So calm down.
@@artiew8718 if Biden wants to be the “adults are back” president, we should revive the TPP treaty. If that’s even possible now.
How did you power that RGB RAM behind you?
Growing rumours that nvidia is cutting supply in the run up to Christmas to hold prices high suggest this poor value card is the best value on offer. What a time to build a PC, haha.
it's funny how this rumour only say nvidia saving up stocks for christmas, like they think amd is not going to do that . no company out there want to miss christmas profit.
@@someoneinasia It’s production of its 30series that they have reportedly cut. Likely to hold up prices and get ready for its move to Samsung. As you can imagine with the sky high prices of the RTX cards they have passed their profit projections for this year and will be gearing up to sell Super series cards.
I'm still on a 1660 super... it works
Oh you didn't listen to people who told Turing is bad value and you should skip it?
@@jouniosmala9921 as an object oriented Turing vet, I am biased
Just to point out, I was a fan of Turing the very second I got Nvidia programmers manuals for it. Got 2070 super since that was the time when I thought I had both cash to buy it and time to write code for it.
Probably 2060 with a dual-link DVI-D port would have been a better choice for my goals at the time. Newer cards just didn't support my old monitor and dongles were crap that worked properly only in the wrong direction but didn't document it.
And after I got everything working I didn't have time anymore.
My 1060 is still pretty good for now, i'll wait a bit longer i guess.
@@kaparxd - check if you can get a 1660 at low prices. My prediction for 6600 and 6600XT is they will almost never be in stock online. Miners will grab them
What's with the cut at 12:15?
Appreciate the “telling it like it is” review!