AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT has been officially presented for $379

On June 29th, the 6600 XT was officially presented by AMD at the Where Gaming Begins Ep. 4 event. It is the most affordable GPU of the current generation, launched by AMD.

First, this GPU has 8 GB of VRAM ; and, like its bigger siblings, it supports all the 6000 series technologies . Thanks to its 160W power consumption , it only requires one 8-pin connector. In fact, the recommended power supply for the 6600 XT is 500W. AMD also showed performance tests, which, by the way, aren't exactly promising:

AMD 6600 XT Official Specifications

• Compute units: 32
• Base frequency: 1968 MHz
• Boost frequency: 2589 MHz
• GameFrequency: 2356 MHz
• RT throttles: 32
• Maximum pixel padding: 165.7 GP / s
• Maximum texture fill: 331.4 GT / s
• Performance in medium precision: 21.21 TFLOPS
• Simple precision performance: 10.6 TFLOPS
• Number of ROPs: 64
• Stream processors: 2048
• Texture Units: 128
• Number of transistors: 11.1 B
• Typical load power: 160 W
• Infinity Cache: 32 MB
• Effective memory speed:
• Memory type: GDDR6
• Memory interface: 128 bits
• Maximum memory bandwidth: 256 GB / s
• HDMI 4K support: Yes
• 4K H264 decoding: Yes
• 4K H264 encoding: Yes
• H265 / HEVC decoding: Yes
• H265 / HEVC encoding: Yes
• AV1Decode: Yes
• DisplayPort version: 1.4 with DSC
• HDMI version: 2.1 VRR and FRL
• USB Type-C: No

RX 6600 XT conclusion

The 6600 XT was officially presented; but we will have to wait until August 11th to "be able to buy it" and see third-party reviews.

If they ask for our opinion; things are not looking very good. The MSRP for this chart is 380 USD, making it compete (in theory) with the 3060 ti for 400 USD. Nevertheless; AMD's own tests say that this 6600 XT is closer to the 3060, than the 3060 ti.

In other words, AMD boasts a rasterization superiority of at most 15% compared to the 3060. However, the 6600 XT is inferior in ray tracing, lacks DLSS, and has 4 GB less than the 3060.

On the other hand, the 3060 Ti, while not having more VRAM, offers 25-30% more performance than the 3060. In other words, it's 10-12% better, costing only $20 more. It also retains NVIDIA's advantages, such as ray tracing, DLSS, NVENC, and so on.

In conclusion, for AMD graphics cards to be worthwhile, it's not enough to simply improve their efficiency, performance, and features compared to previous generations of their own brand. They also need to be similar to NVIDIA in these same aspects while maintaining competitive prices.