The marketplace for graphics playing cards is taking an enormous hit with the chipset scarcity. It’s arduous to ship when the demand is so excessive, moreover normal clients are having a foul time attempting to compete with cryptocurrency miners that normally get the entire batch of latest graphics playing cards each time they’re restocked. Despite the fact that, corporations are bringing new graphics playing cards with new applied sciences to additional improve the gaming expertise and different associated areas. AMD is breaking borders with its Ryzen CPUs, nonetheless, it nonetheless is preventing to realize person’s choice over NVIDIA’s RTX sequence. Immediately, the chipmaker has launched a brand new member for the Radeon RX 6000-series of desktop graphics playing cards, the RX 6600 XT. The brand new GPU is priced at $379, at the least on paper as every little thing is dependent upon the demand and provide. They are going to be obtainable beginning August 11.

The RX 6600 XT arrives as the most affordable and least highly effective member of the RX 6000-series GPU household. It’s going to compete in opposition to the $329 NVIDIA RTX 3060. Curiously, for notebooks, NVIDIA additionally has the RTX 3050 which is a step beneath the 3060. Getting again to the purpose, the RX 6600 XT makes use of the brand new smaller Navi 23 GPU, not like the Navi 22 (6700 XT) and Navi 21 GPU (6800, 6800 XT, 6900 XT) which were obtainable on earlier playing cards.

The brand new GPU comes with 32 compute items in comparison with the 40 on the 6700 XT and 60 on the 6800. It may well clock as much as 2359 MHz throughout gameplay and might increase as much as 2589 MHz. The 16Gbps eight GB GDDR6 reminiscence makes use of a 128-bit reminiscence interface. It affords a 256GB/s reminiscence bandwidth and 32 MB of on-die “Infinity Cache”. The RX 6600 XT additionally helps the Microsoft DirectX Final characteristic set, together with hardware-accelerated ray tracing. It’s able to 8K show output over its HDMI 2.1 connection and affords help for native AV1 decoding. The cardboard requires 160W of energy, so it’s good to have that in thoughts whereas placing it in your setup.

In accordance with the tech firm, the RX 6600 XT is for a excessive refresh price of 1080p gaming. It’s, on common, 15 % quicker than the RTX 3060 at this decision. It additionally claims to supply as much as 2.5x the efficiency enchancment over the GTX 1060. Furthermore, it brings round 1.5x of enchancment over the earlier technology RX 5600 XT.

As common, the brand new Raden RX 6600 XT will solely be obtainable by means of board companions. The listing of corporations launching their variations of this GPU contains ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI. Furthermore, PowerColor, Sapphire, XFX, and Yeston may also launch their very own variations.