AMD’s Radeon RX 6600XT is its next flagship 1080p GPU

After making a comeback in the mid-range with its RX 6700 XT GPU, AMD launched its 1080p flagship, the RX 6600 XT. Successor of the excellent and popular RX 5600 XT card, the new model has significantly more horsepower with 9.6 teraflops of RDNA 2 performance, compared to 7.19 teraflops for the last model. Not only that, but it offers 8GB of GDDR6 RAM, compared to 6GB for its predecessor.

In fact, the RX 6600 XT seems to offer roughly the same performance as the RX 5700 XT (9.75 teraflops) and a little less than the PS5’s GPU, at least on paper. Considering that the RX 5700 XT was offered as a 1440p compatible card (and the PS5 can handle 4K), it doesn’t seem like a stretch to say that the new model will be at least decent at 1440p gaming.

However, AMD markets this card as a “new standard for 1080p”, claiming that it has up to 1.7 times the increase compared to the last generation for games like Eternal destiny for 1080p games. AMD noted that about two-thirds of the monitors shipped are still 1080p, so this is still the standard for PC gaming.

Other specs include 32 compute units (compared to 40 on the RX 6700 XT), a 2359 MHz game clock, and 160W power consumption with a single 8-pin power connector. AMD also offers custom features like Radeon Boost for higher frame rates and Radeon Anti-Lag for improved latency.

However, the main novelty of the 6000 series GPUs is ray tracing. This feature allows for higher resolutions (1440p and 4K) while still maintaining decent frame rates and allowing for more realistic images. Don’t expect too much from the RX 6600 XT, however, as the RX 6700 XT struggled in ray tracing tests against NVIDIA’s rivals in our review – and the RX 6600 XT has lower specs all around.

Still, that sounds pretty impressive if not for a budget-level 1080p card. We will soon see a series of RX 6600 XT models from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI (above), ASRock and others, with an MSRP starting at $ 379 and delivery slated for August 11. Take it as a miracle if you get one at this price, though – the RX 5600 XT had a suggested retail price of $ 300, but street prices were often double and more thanks to cryptomining and scarcity. world of GPUs.