Had this GPU before and it sure punched way above it's weight and price, it was my first AMD GPU and I have now since upgraded to a 7800XT. I loved the RX6600XT
As someone who uses an RX 6600, performance doesn't surprise me, they are great cards! Some of the best price for performance right now for a brand new card. Personal note: With an optimized custom preset, you can have higher settings at native 1440p and still hit above 60fps on Helldivers 2 with even with the worse RX 6600. Some settings hit performance a lot harder than others in Helldivers with very little visual difference.
Rx 6800 is much better priced in my country its a way better deal 150€ more but way more powerful and futureproof. But RX 6600 cards are all legendary!!!
@@mano6605 From my experience, yes. I only play 1440p native with my card and I have yet to find a game that can't really be managed, you just have to live with medium or low settings on very demanding games. Still mostly medium though, low on Helldivers 2 is unnecessary if you watch an optimization guide.
@@Denniz69 God I wish I could get an RX6800 for so little. Here in the U.S. the RX 6800 averages around ~370 USD new, and anywhere from 300-400 dollars used. Add about 50 dollars onto those prices and you get the RX 6800XT's prices more or less. RX 6600 meanwhile can be found as low as 200 USD new, and averages about 230-250 USD. RX 6600 XT and RX6650 XT are usually only about 20 to 30 dollars higher, but can sometimes also drop as low as an RX 6600's price. Very good price to performance in the U.S., compared to the RTX 3060 which averages around ~300 USD.
My general rule-of-thumb with graphics settings optimization is to set the textures to high and set everything else to medium. With that preset, my 6600XT plays everything at 1440p no problem. Great video ✌
this is exactly my card right now, paired with R5 5600 this is truly a 1080p beast for me, I never expected it would perform this descent in 1440p. Thanks for this.
I managed to find a 3x fan model of the 6600 XT (XFX Speedster QICK308) for $120 a couple months back. It was a massive upgrade for my wife, who was using a "placeholder" 1060 3GB beforehand as part of the build I made her for Christmas last year. Paired with a i7-8700 & 32GB DDR4-3200, it's a phenomenal 1080p machine. Most games break the 100fps threshold, and for the ones that don't, FSR usually makes up the difference. She's still playing what I'd consider "lighter" titles (minus Planet Zoo anyway), such as Dreamlight Valley, Paleo Pines, Palworld, & a handful of others that are in the same genre for the most part. To my surprise though, the i7-8700 has seen better days. It's sadly holding the 6600 XT back; the 1% & 0.1% lows tend to have a few harsh dips in CPU demanding scenarios or when the average frame rate is high overall. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, seeing as the 8700 is roughly equivalent to the R5 3600 at stock clock speeds & I feel like I've seen better performance out of builds that have a 3600 (again without an OC). Either way, I plan to give her my R5 5600 + B450 that I'm currently using after I get my hands on a 12900K/13700K + Z690/Z790 lol (I've gotten to a point where I now need a decent amount of cores to work with). And when she's ready for a faster GPU, I can just swap the 5600 for a 5800X3D and it'll be solid for another few years.
Bro i'm just going through the same upgrade almost right now lmao. Built my first pc 2-3 years ago with an r5 3600 and a 1060 3G and just yesterday sold my 1060 3G and now waiting for my RX 6600 XT to arrive
I found your channel a few days ago and I've been binging your videos, I've never binged a tech channel before and never thought I would. You're awesome!
There hasn't been a game released in the last decade worth upgrading old hardware to play. FFS the unreal engine has been around since the 90s; Unity came out in 2005 and REdEngine 4 is a fucking CONSOLE GAME ENGINE (it's shit for shit hardware).
@@SPORKETT Computer science major here: All games are rasterized. Rasterization is the process of taking objects from affine space (where the computer does all the calculations and everything is vectors and matrix operations) and projecting them onto a screen (what you see). Some idiot marketing team (from photoshop) decided to conflate vector graphics and rasterization because they were hired for making things sound good and not hired to be technically accurate. In simple terms: Rasterization is the process ALL graphics cards use to produce images from the graphics pipeline. Raster Graphics is a marketing term that conflates the rasterization process with how the data is stored in affine space.
Didn't expect this card not to be able to do it. I still have my old RX 580 8GB that i bought way back at launch in 2017,paired with a 5800x and it can still run a lot of games in 1440p while it was considered to be just a 1080p card. That was one of the best card for the money i ever bought
You owe that 5800x something better. Watch the local market I’ve bought a 6750xt for $200 and 6950xt for $360 in the last 5 months. Sell your 580 after you get a good deal on something. Especially if trying to run 165hz at 1440p or better. 1080p and low fps targets can still work. I have a GtX1080 paired with a 5600x out in the garage on a 1080p 60hz screen. It runs medium settings 60fps locked no problem even on RDR2. So yeah much depends on game and resolution if an old gpu can hang in there.
@@45eno The 5800x system is just my secondary system. My main has a 7800X3D and an RTX 3070 that i'm planning to replace with a 7900XT. Once i do that i'll just put the 3070 in the 5800x build
@@Mirra2003-f9s yep completely different recommendation for a secondary pc. I have a bunch of secondary systems as well and pass things down to them. Yep that 3070 has a perfect secondary home for sure.
i have 5600x and pulse 6700 non xt it can play 1080p with mixed settings high fps, fsr3 also helps with new games like first descendant 145 average of 10hours of playing
I have the rx 6600 non xt and my main monitor is 1440p. The main games I play are titanfall 2, genshin impact, naraka bladepoint, and occassionally games such as doom 2016, devil may cry 5 and I've got to say the gpu certainly can do 1440p. High/max settings at 1440p with no upscaling and still above 60 fps in those titles. for naraka I do use fsr set to quality though.
Red Devil? I got it, excellent card. Just upgraded to a 1440p 180Hz monitor the other week and it's been doing wonderfully in most titles on medium settings. Fluid motion frames helps a lot if you can guarantee at least 60fps and don't mind the input lag, but its best to use it alongside Anti-Lag
I've had the red devil version of RX 6600XT for a while now. One of the best mid range budget cards out there if your buying used, though a bit more power hungry than the normal non-XT version FSR really is a game changer and with the directX 12 ultimate support it has longevity in the long run
Thanks for your effort in putting out these tests, really appreciate, these are so helpful for budget games like me who buy cards when prices go down and card has been around for 1-1.5 years
Been loving the addition of F4 to the benches! But really, for a representative picture, you need to get to Diamond city. Cambridge is a lot less demanding and you spend A LOT of time in the mid-to-late game in Diamond city.
Red Dead 2 can be goofy like that on certain cards. Toggling triple buffering on and off (or just leaving on with vsync off) usually fixes it. Happened on my old nvidia card and still does on my 6700XT. I think it's specifically with vulkan, but I might be wrong on that.
I use 1440p for this gpu and for less intensive titles or with the use of fsr q ur uq, 1440pis easily achievable in AAA games with some compromised settings,. Vram is admittedly a small problem but by dropping texture quality to medium on the most intensive games, you'll be fine. 144 fps in even achievable in select titles.
Have a 6600xt in my secondary rig and it performs pretty well with the exception of a few games (Palworld and Midnight Ghost Hunt both randomly crashing, but Cyberpunk and Elden Ring running just fine)
if you can, in the elden ring benchmark, go looking for a boss with a lot of effects going on (like the ice dragon an such), the game dips a lot when is around a lot of effects at the same time
One thing i would turn down in Fallout 4 is shadow distance to low. They render way far out and low is the best sweet spot to bring up that 1 percent and .1 percent low to be much smoother... everything else ultra tho
You should try to limit the FPS in riva tuner options, to test if the 0.1% low improve in several games/cards. You will be surprised in some games, even if the limite is near the average. And try Dirt Rally 1 with older pc's. Ego engine will surprise you and it's a great game to test and very cheap nowadays. Keep with the good work!
Right after crypto dried up I bought $100-120 1070/1080 to replace all my even older 970/1060/1050ti/290. Then a few months later I found a guy selling off a bunch of 6600xts. I bought six Powercolor Red Devs for $128 each and sold off all the 1070/1080. They have been great and still have three in the house. I have since bought nicer cards pushing out 3 of these. Great 1080p card for high settings 150fps but can also do 1440p or 4k depending on settings and game choice.
It really seems like Radeon is catching up with NVIDIA. They're like a generation behind in the high end and killing it in the middle and low end. The drivers aren't as bad as anyone thinks. My 7900xtx can easily match an RTX 4080 super. The Super likely gets a few frames more. I guess 4-5 fps is worth $300 more.
I’ve definitely had driver issues in the past but experienced no problems at all recently. Apart from RDR2 but not entirely sure what that is. I really like AMDs software too
@@RandomGaminginHD I had minor issues with my old 6700xt that I got during the lock downs. But after a few updates, they went away. I even went with a 3080 10gb and ended up with a 6950xt. My 7900xtx is just solidifying my opinion about having to have NVIDIA, which you don't. Not anymore at least.
I've used the RX 6650 XT recently and thought it seemed great for the price. Considered getting one, maybe second hand for my backup rig but i lucked out. My brother had issues with his almost new RX 6750 XT, hadn't even peeled the protective film yet. He bought an RTX 4060 instead and i got the 6750 XT for just €200. One undervolt later and it's running pretty well. I get the occasional frame dip, where it freezes for a quarter of a second but it doesn't happen very often. It's just an Asus Dual model but temps are pretty good and it plays very well @1440p. Got it cheaper than a new 6650 XT and it still got 20+ months left of the warranty, couldn't pass it up!
I repasted my first gen switch yesterday. Lovely. Did the whole thing, removed the thin little IHS from the SOC and dug the fan out and cleaned it all through. Anyway, I have an rx6700xt so I’m not surprised to see that this card can handle this.
@@thefurmidablecatlucky3 right now in stock brand new in several stores in my country: RX 6600XT: ASUS Dual OC ASUS ROG Strix OC PowerColor Fighter PowerColor Red Devil Sapphire Nitro+ MSI Mech 2X OCV1 Gigabyte Gaming OC Gigabyte Eagle XFX Speedster SWFT 210
You may be better off to wait just a little bit if you can like 6 months, new cards are coming and maybe you can get a better one for around the same price. RDNA 4 is supposed to be between Q3 2024 and Q1 2025. If Intel drops Battlemage and the Nvidia 5000 series around the same time, let the price wars begin.
got a 5600x and 6650xt just upgraded from a 1080p 144hz 24inch tn panel to a 27 inch 165hz 1440p ips panel its really good for story games and competitive i mainly play ps5 for story and comp for pc
I had a 6700 XT for a bit, and it was a super solid 1440p card. Only got rid of it because I found a great deal on a 7800 XT, which is, frankly, overkill for me. Glad to see the 6600 XT is holding out so well at 1440p.
I actually have that same GPU with the first desktop I got, and it pairs pretty well with my R5 5600G and my 1440P monitor. I have thought about upgrading the parts for a more consistent gaming experience and do some future video editing but I want to avoid any bottleneck, especially since I have an AM4 motherboard
Minecraft Java shaders are better than Bedrock's RTX in my opinion I use Sildur's high shaders with sodium and my rx 6600XT tanks it. I never go below 60 fps
I don't know overseas but here in europe, it's cheaper and easier to find 6650XT instead of 6600XT, i'm pretty sure the 50 variant can bring some more perf in the table to get that 60fps everywhere at least and in the same setings of the video !
Hey man, i think on 8:52 with rdr, the vulkan api causes some stutters. I think switching to dx12 might fix the issue, not 100% sure but it might be worth the try
I just picked up an RX 6600 XT through Facebook for $70. The seller thought it was a 5500, but I checked the model number from his pictures and discovered it’s a 6600 from an HP prebuilt. HWinfo and 3Dmark verified I was correct.
Why no upscaling though? If we're choosing custom graphics settings like low or medium, idk why no FSR? If we're not doing max settings benchmarks, I think most people would be most interested in the realistic use-case results. Great videos as always though! I use this card.
I'd add Horizon: Forbidden West to the test suite, gives us an inclination for how God of War Ragnarok or any other former PS exclusive titles might run.
Tbh I was surprised how well the GPU perform are in some titles and HellDivers 2 could’ve been upped to medium texture settings with the available vram and performance on the table. It’s a shame that new games engines like UE5 are ruining these perfectly fine gpus with vram requirements for a slightly better image quality!
For Red Dead Redemption 2, did you limit the FPS of the game? I have a 1440p 180Hz monitor and my 6600XT was having horrible frametimes until I lowered the max frames to 120 and the gameplay experience afterwards was much smoother, lowest I would see on medium-ish settings was around 55 fps, whereas set to 180fps I was having my 1% going to down to like the low 40s
AMD adrenaline software enables FLUID MOTIONS FRAMES by default on some applications. On certain games it causes severe stuttering. This may be what is happening to Red dead 2. I have experienced this with Alan wake 2 as well.
Red Dead Redemption 2 performance is not great since the amd 23.9.2 driver update. I reported this way back but they didn't fix this issue, the game performs much better on older drivers.
you could probably increase some settings in some games like tlou, helldivers, etc... at least vram bound settings and have the same fps looking much better overall.
I'm rocking 2560X1600 and was wondering how it would handle more modern games. I know for 3/4 of my library it will run fine at that resolution, I'm satisfied.
My only problem with the 6600 class cards is the vram. My 6650 xt only has 8 gigs of vram and struggles with vr because of it. At 1080p tho its a really really good card.
Regarding the poor performance of RDR2: This has been the case since Adrenalin 23.9.2 drivers, as I found out after some research - but only with the Vulkan API, with DX12 the game generally runs smoothly (apart from a few tiny 'hitches' now and then) Up until 23.9.1 this weird problem didn't exist. BTW it's not only RDR2 that's affected because when I switched from DX12 to Vulkan in Sniper Elite 5, it was exactly the same as with RDR2, the frametime graph was a mess! So this is undoubtedly a driver problem, or maybe just compatibility issue of certain graphics cards with the recent drivers? It would be awesome if someone here knew more about this problem and could explain it (please)
Been upgrading from and old 1060 6gb for the gigabyte 6600 non XT and it was worth it ( but not at 300€ at that time ) i have zero regrets about this card and i hope to be able to upgrade to a 7800XT one day :D
I got my 6800 XT used for €360 a couple months ago. Basically the same performance as 7800 XT with slightly worse ray tracing, might be worth checking out the used market where you live (I'm guessing France based on your name haha)
I downgraded myself from a 7800 xt to a rx 6600 xt because I simply don't play enough games, I managed to get a sweet deal on the 6600 xt xfx 308 with dual bios for 88$ and I can say I doesn't dissapoint my needs 👍👍👍👍
I had a nice brucey bonus this morning, bought Resident Evil Zero and Resident Evil Code Veronica X HD (the best of all the series imho) for the staggering price of... £7 So with the perpetual RE 2 and 3 on Game Pass I now can play from Zero to 3/CV and in 1080p too... can't stand the later ones, just attempts to milk money when they should have expanded sideways or just not bothered.
For Xbox not PC, not sure if Zero is out for PC unless its in that bumper collection, also in my Xbox I have the original Rare Replay the one with the extra bits, paid only a few quid and pretty much got everything I need on PC or Xbox save Skies of Arcadia... is apparently under redevelopment for a release maybe this year /fingers crossed
do you have maybe a ryzen system that is near the performance of your i5 12400f? if yes, i would be super interessted to see the performance of amd sam on, because as i turned my on (have r5 2600x / rx 6600 xt) the performance is alot better now, beside the fact that i have buyed a ultrawide 1440p screen without thinking of the problem that the rx 6600 xt runs nice on my old 1080p and now i have to upscale or use fmf haha but it still is a good card for the price i think and if you have already a ryzen, then go for it, amd sam is rly nice
So the answer is no.1440p is a compromise resolution adopted because 4k high fps was(is) kinda hard to get.Not getting over 144 fps in most games is failing at it.
you probably ran into some driver issues with red dead redemption 2, i have the same card with ryzen 3 3200g and i play on 1440p with ultra settings and i get around same fps without any stutters however i use vulkun
hey man so im planning to buy a used 6600 XT and im currently using ryzen 5 2600 with 16 gb ram i just want to ask if it would cause any problem with that set up.
