Sorry if the pacing seems off or my voice gradually disappears as the video goes on. I've woken up with a mega sore throat feeling like someone's had me in a head lock all night lol
"It's still overpriced, but less overpriced than alternative options" oof, now that's about the saddest thing I've heard all day 😆 hopefully this GPU shortage crisis will end soon 🥊🎮
I was just about to comment when I saw this lol... I paid £160 about 2 years ago for my Vega 56 with the Vega 64 bios hacked in, and looking at the FPS he's getting on cold war,. I only really play warzone, but get around the same FPS, it always dips in the helicopter but in game I average 120ish FPS... And the 6600xt is £450... The GFX market really is screwed over isn't it :o
@@theogster yeah I paid around 200 USD for mine about a year and a half ago. See if you can't sell it on ebay, you can get more than 650 USD easily it looks like. I listed mine at a buy it now price of 650 and it sold in 4 hours.
I think one of the things I like most about this channel is how often do computer stuff vids ever include being outside? At all? Ever? This man likes to get some sun on the parts, and I like that. Nice flowers.
EDIT: To all the people replying to this damn month-old comment telling me 1070 is not a min spec card, I KNOW! If you open your eyes and read the first sentence again maybe you'll understand, but if it's that hard to comprehend all i said is that when true next-gen games get released a card like 1070 is going to be the next 1060 as i've seen that card be the min requirement for some games. Well, My 1070 is about to get the minimum spec treatment though 1060 is doing that for now, but i'm very well happy with it because of how insane the prices are all-around, and there's a ton of games i haven't played that my card will definitely handle with no problem, it just goes to show that you don't always need the latest of hardware to have fun.
The 1070 is starting to show up as a minimum recommended gpu. My 1660ti is still holding on for dear life with an overclock but the time is coming for the older mid-range cards.
Yeah I'm starting to contemplate properly sitting down and tuning the snot out of mine, I'm lucky to have a well cooled gigabyte one, it probably won't save it that much tho
i managed to get the asrock 6600 xt phantom gaming D and with an OC on the core and memory i managed to beat the 3060 ti in furmark almost hitting 11k points. I was happy with this and the card. Never goes over 60 degrees.
I refuse to believe this without proof. The performance difference between the 3060 ti and 6600xt is just way too big for an overclock to get you close to the 3060 tis performance, you would need a 15-20% performance boost to get near its performance and today’s cards just don’t overclock that far. The phantom gaming d doesn’t even have that much higher of a clock than other aib models so I just don’t get how you surpass the 3060 ti.
@@footlettuce1947 calm down nvidia fanboy lmao. He's just stating how his oc-ed card performs, you are free to disagree but no need to be aggressive over this lol
I actually managed to get one for 380 when it lauched and have been so happy with it after replacing my 470 for playing a little bit older games and rts's at 1440p
It's actually one of the few games that does see a MASSIVE performance drop with the 6600XT running PCIe 3.0 based on Hardware Unboxed and other tests. Still more than playable but it's stark when you compare it.
I've played loads of well-optimized games lately. Having trouble finding a game my 6800 XT can't do 1440p 170FPS in. Tales of Arise sometimes dips to like 150FPS, but it's so pretty. I ran RE8 at a locked 170FPS, max settings minus RT, even when they had the Denuvo issues. No framerate dips when those sisters came around. Feels so weird. Hoping to stick with this card for the next 6 years.
It's been a real pain honestly. I don't have a microcenter really nearby to camp out at. I've been trying to pick up a mod-range gpu for an editing and gaming rig. The 6600XT, 6700XT, 3060ti and 3070 have been appealing to me but I can't find any for a reasonable (and I'm stretching reasonable) price.
@@DigitalJedi I'm feeling more and more grateful about getting my 6700 xt red devil a couple of months ago for $625.00 usd on my local Facebook market. Apparently the young guy that sold it to me (a stand up chap) managed to get a 6900 xt right after getting the 6700 and agreed to my offer of 200 dollars lower than what he was asking. Sometimes if you strike up a little convo and are generally friendly rather than being cut throat and down to business about the item, you'll get a good reaction out of people. Although during these times I understand a little bit of firmness about your interest doesn't hurt, but people are kind of turned off by overly thirsty buyers some times. Target someone that you think is a fellow gamer and chat about your plans for the card and what you're upgrading from. I find that offering someone a lower or more "reasonable" price with a little explanation behind the reasoning goes a long way with people too.
Man, video card names confuse me sometimes. I thought this was going to be about the old nvidia 6600 from like 2004, then I seen "8GB Memory" on the box and my brain threw a 404 for a split second.
@@harsesishoktar9386 it is possible if you like computers but don't necesarily care about the all new hardware, if you knew how long it took me to know that AMD was a thing you would probably cringe.
Fortnite has stuttering issues for about a few months now, they messed up something with the rendering and it stutters whenever its loading many things at once, the reason why 1440p stuttered less is because that area was already loaded from the past game.
If you put a lower frame rate cap, the stuttering goes away. It's because of CPU loading on the main thread when running uncapped frame rates e.g. for benchmarking
@@johna527 makes sense but for a competitive player higher frame rate makes a huge difference (especially in Fortnite where you always have to hit your shotgun shots well)
Really love this card over 3060 (very high pricing in India), I've paired it with R5 3600x + 16x2 3200MHz ram + B450 msi mobo, I ways play on 1080p res and I am too getting a very decent 145+ or 100 + fps on very high or high max settings, good card for 1080p high refresh rate gaming !!
@@alfiandy4494 Of all benchmarks I've seen that compared the two, the only game I've seen that made a statistically significant difference was a 10fps hit in Death Stranding, and the game was still in the 90+ range. Other titles, 1-2 FPS hit. It *seriously* doesn't matter.
Exactly. For Most of the crap the 6600 xt got at release, today it is one of the best cards available, that can Give Great performance and is not costing a fortune.
@@raahim11 yeah. In my country there's a store that sells the best pc's for gaming with cheap prices compared to other stores. I was planning to buy the pc with a rtx 3060 cuz i have a budget. But it was a little over my budget. A lot of deciding days later i checked the store again. And they added a pc with an rx6600 xt. That pc was 250$ cheaper than the rtx 3060 pc. Without deciding for days i bought the pc with rx6600xt and i save up my savings for something else lol.
At this rate I'll be hoping my undervolted second hand Strix 1080ti lasts as long as the Voodoo 3 I have in my retro PC! Spending £200 and flogging off my equally second hand 1080 3 years ago, looks to have been a master stroke... I don't envy anyone having to deal with the new Grapics card 'normal'.
I need a new GPU and cause of my work I need the VRAM ... So that means 8GB is on the low end for me... And 10GB and above is wanted... Gulp... I normally go for the xx80ti but a 3080ti is insane amounts of money as a 3080. FML...
Considering I was able to pick one of these up for around the same going rate as a 1660 Super currently retails for and sell my existing 1660 Super for twice what I paid for it, this card makes all the sense in the world. Faster than a 3060 and cheaper as well. In a market gone mad this is what sanity looks like sadly.
"There are now 9 1080tis on the market. GTX 1080ti, RTX 3060, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080, Titan Xp (2016), Titan Xp (2017), RTX 2080 Super, and now RX 6600xt. These cards all perform around the same as each other. Thats really something." -Kenzo Evans a top comment being
Not amd but I bought a pre built pc with a 2070 super for 1500 and I can now sell the 2070 super alone for 1500. So I know what you mean. But that will never happen 😉😀
Well as long as it plays all the games i want to play im good. For some reason the amd counterparts are always been expensive in my country. So it was a no brainer
I’ve been rocking my RX590 for a little over two years now and I’m content with the 1080p performance enough to wait for prices to drop back to earth - assuming that ever happens. /:
I actually upgraded from an xfx rx 590 to rtx 3060, even that was an amazing difference. But the rx 590 is more than enough till gpu prices get better.
@@thekinglov265 unless I'm missing something, most modern motherboards (AMD or Intel) mobos have resizeable bar (what AMD calls SAM) too. Intel 500-series MOBOs also supports pcie 4 with 11th gen CPUs.
Right now, Ray tracing doesn't seem like a big deal but in the future, when hardware makes ray tracing more affordable and accessible, i feel developers will make it the norm.
What rendering mode were you using with Fortnite? AMD gpus don't like dx11, they perform significantly better on dx12. I'm also pretty sure it's being cpu bottlenecked while playing on medium settings or below, 11th gen intel or ryzen 5000 does make a difference in my experience.
I bought this card the other day and I am super happy with it. The market has gone to hell, and really the only reason for upgrading is that I got such a good offer on my old card. I agree the high price is kind of necessary (yet awful) to actually keep cards in stock for a while. Here in Sweden you can get hold of them for MSRP. Which can't be said about nvidias offerings. I was surprised of how well the card performed once you stop looking at "ultra" benchmarks on YT. With balanced settings both CP2077, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition blew me away. I had no idea I would be able to play Metro Exodus at 1440p with "normal RT" hovering around 60fps. :) and CP2077 I settled for a nice mix between low/medium/high in 1440p and locked the game to 50fps (freesync) It runs smooth, no tearing, no stutters, and it looks incredible! I actually didn't think I was going to be able to play those game with such satisfaction.
I wouldn't hold my breath until the prices go back to "normal". Because i have a feeling these will be the new normal. With mining becoming so mainstream i don't see it going away and with inflation kicking in we'd be lucky to get anywhere near old prices.
Every card from the GTX 10,16 and RTX 20 series bought before the shortage is a sound investment. If one can find an RX 6000 or RTX 3000 at MSRP and flip their used card for supply and demand price. It's an ez win. A bit opportunistic and selfish some might say, but it's human nature to want the bigger piece of the pie.
I bought a laptop right before the GPU shortage hit. Their prices increased a lot after the shortage in my country. I bought mine for 10k (about $1200) and now anything with matching performance to that is sold for 14k+
As a random update to this nine-month old review, right now the prices of these cards is actually correcting itself... on Ebay. Like, $280 or even less, where the price always should have been.
I just bought one. I got it for $650 in total. I can’t wait, It’s usually $850 for this card so I just bought it Instantly lmao. I’m going from a old laptop with a 1050 to a custom pc with a ryzen 7 3700x an 6600xt. I’ve been saving up for 2 years
When you watching review of GPU which is on the "cheap side" and worth more than your "gaming" PC. Nearly twice 🤷♂️. TBH it is interesting to see how lot of CPU/GPU aged really really well and still going strong after quite a bit of time
My 1080ti blew up like some firecracker this january after 3 years of service(brought that way overpriced and after adding waterblock it costed me 1150+ euro sadly) great overclocker it was. Just recently brought 3060ti for 691eur which isnt much better than my last gpu, sooo much bss here...
@@jamieammar6131 It was overclocked to its max possible cababilities with 175%power limit i think, custom bios and 2170+mhz on core, but that death was to quick anyways i think the same ,but well things happens so..
The best way is to forget 4K and buy a high end card for 1080P max settings. Because then, even in 5 years time, while at 4K the card would be struggling, it would still be playing at 1080P with high settings no problem. The only time I'd use the phrase "future proof" to a degree.
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j But you can find the 6600 in stock, and no one uses RT or DLSS, the most played games are CSGO, League of Legends, GTA V and so on, none of these support or need none of those features.
@@hunterfabio 1: point was that 6600xt is barely better while priced higher 2: rt and dlss are both widely used 3: you dont need neither gpu for those games you mentioned. A gtx 1070 or 1080, or amd 5500xt or 580 are enough to play those games not only in 1440p, but even 4k (with maybe some lower settings or not 100 fps)
july 2022 update: this now costs less than a damn 3060 here in my country. making this the best 1080p high end and 1440p mid end card in the market, unless you care for the raytracing gimmick. also that entire pcie3 vs 4 argument is completely stupid. i tested the card both on gen3 and 4 and the difference can be thrown in the margin of error with a fps diff of around 2-5.
You need to know where the closest miner or scalper lives. Also you might need a firearm just in case. You might end up with stuff even better than a 6600xt.
Nice to see you do a vid on this! I had to upgrade and managed to get this since it's like the only option lol but I've been using it for 4k gaming and it's been an absolute treat! And it runs super cool and quiet as well
I'm just here comfy with my 580 8GB version which now goes for around 600 euros which is thrice the price compared to 2019 since miners love this card for some reason.
@VishVadeva i had an issue with a mid-low end card (GTX 650) where i would feel and hear stuff through my G25 and headset before i would see it on screen. It made Beamng nearly unplayable.
This market can work for you if upgrading. I upgraded my kid’s 1660 super to the 6600xt and then sold the 1660 super for more than I paid for the 6600xt. Crazy.
In the upcoming Forza Horizon 5, they said there will be auditory ray-tracing when driving out in the open, and I'm hoping that my 1660S will be able to take advantage of that (since it technically is possible to enable visual ray-tracing with a 1660S)
Hey RandomGaming, will you do any more reviews of gaming with workstation cards? Like the Quadro P2000 which can be found cheap on the secondhand market?
@@RandomGaminginHD I'm looking forward to it. Workstation cards are quite underrated for gaming. They're usually the cards that have readily available stock and are sold closer to their MSRP.
There is a RUclips showing one of these 6600XT's running in PCIe 3, and 4. The FPS on 4 was literally 1 higher across the board. Virtually/realistically zero difference, when taking into account margin for error.
People will always be using older hardware, so don't think like that. People still use 1060,1050,1030,900 series and much older and many even without a dedicated GPU.
Also here with my 1650 non-super. Very satisfied with this, although I don't really play the latest games. I used it mostly for transcoding and upscaling.
I just bought my 6650 xt for $280 (with the last of us part 1, in addition to me selling my 1660 ti to fund the purchase) This was a stupid crazy cheap deal. Now it is back up to $334 usd withouth discount. Glad I made my purchase and waited.
I found a 1660 Ti from scan a few weeks ago and yesterday i traded at CEX a Nintendo Switch & RX 550 4gb for a RTX 2060 Palit. We're all buying the upgrades atm, good video as always i have a feeling you live close to me. Kettering / Midlands area
Yea i bought this fella right when it came.. i regret it though, it was for 17000CZK!!! Today its worth 11500CZK new! Still, performance-wise, i am satisfied. Me got asrock dual fan OC and it runs VERY cool and quiet, even if oc'd to its limits EDIT: my card has got samsung memory on it, able to reach 2270Mhz rock stable, i thought it was worth mentioning
I am so glad crypto crashed. I picked up a RX 6700 in october for $420. If I had waited six months I could have got it for $300. I'm still happy it's where it's at now.
I will get this card for my next build. I don't care about raytracing. I already got evga gt 750w 80+ gold modular psu, asus tuf gaming gt 301 case, silentiumpc fera 5 dual fan cpu cooler, B550 asrock pro4 mobo. On monday i will order 500gb ssd and 3600mhz 2 x 8gb ram, then i only have cpu and gpu left to order☺
So glad I got a reference 5700 on sale for 280 right after the red dead 2 launch. An XT bios flash and Artic Accelero III cooler mod later and it's a beast that I am in love with
Okay what happened in COD the server knew you was recording so it was like lets take a holiday and let him look real good in COD. We will get him next time....lol...great video.
I gave in and bought a used 1070 from EVGA. Paid 375, and am now keeping the card until probably 2023 or whenever the prices actually begin to decline.
It's funny to me that this is probably one of the fastest pieces of hardware I've seen you review, but it's not a positive review because the state of the market.
Sorry if the pacing seems off or my voice gradually disappears as the video goes on. I've woken up with a mega sore throat feeling like someone's had me in a head lock all night lol
Get well, have a nice day!
Your voice sounds fine :)
Get well soon! :)
lmao kinky
😂
imagine being a real pilot and saying in a calm way: "Yea..My plane is still going down and I dont know whats happening"
lol
I mean, no matter how bad the situation, paniking won't get you anywhere, keep your cool and search an issue so you can get a solution to it.
@@Ferrari255GTO "oh no i forgot my parachute and jumped of a helicopter flying 1000ft from the ground what do i do without yelling for possible help?"
@@asintado3985 accept your fate? i mean who's gonna help you at that point?
"It's still overpriced, but less overpriced than alternative options" oof, now that's about the saddest thing I've heard all day 😆 hopefully this GPU shortage crisis will end soon 🥊🎮
Yeah I reckon maybe this time next year. No sooner anyway
@@RandomGaminginHD let's hope it doesnt pull a "chinese pandemic" on us and it goes for round two, wouldn't be suprised in the slightest bit.
It only just began.
@@jayrodriguez439 yeah, 2023 Graphics cards go so high that GTX 650's are selling for more than a house.
@@Ferrari255GTO yea wait for gt710 to be the price of a tesla it might happen :)
Since I sold my Vega 56 for 650 and got a 6600xt for 500 I'm decently happy with it :)
that's the best deal in the history of deals
I pity the poor soul who paid $650 for your old card. Very good deal on your end though
I remember when Vega 56 and 1070s were going for like £180 - £200. Sad days now XD
I was just about to comment when I saw this lol... I paid £160 about 2 years ago for my Vega 56 with the Vega 64 bios hacked in, and looking at the FPS he's getting on cold war,. I only really play warzone, but get around the same FPS, it always dips in the helicopter but in game I average 120ish FPS...
And the 6600xt is £450... The GFX market really is screwed over isn't it :o
@@theogster yeah I paid around 200 USD for mine about a year and a half ago. See if you can't sell it on ebay, you can get more than 650 USD easily it looks like. I listed mine at a buy it now price of 650 and it sold in 4 hours.
Got one of those 6600 XTs (XFX Merc 308) for £370. Very good pricing for its performance, especially considering the scalper prices for other cards.
Yeah that was a good deal
@@RandomGaminginHD Good deal? No. Better deal? Yes
@@wyatt3604
It’s all relative
Where did you buy it from?
just got one for £220
I think one of the things I like most about this channel is how often do computer stuff vids ever include being outside? At all? Ever? This man likes to get some sun on the parts, and I like that. Nice flowers.
EDIT: To all the people replying to this damn month-old comment telling me 1070 is not a min spec card, I KNOW!
If you open your eyes and read the first sentence again maybe you'll understand, but if it's that hard to comprehend all i said is that when true next-gen games get released a card like 1070 is going to be the next 1060 as i've seen that card be the min requirement for some games.
Well, My 1070 is about to get the minimum spec treatment though 1060 is doing that for now, but i'm very well happy with it because of how insane the prices are all-around, and there's a ton of games i haven't played that my card will definitely handle with no problem, it just goes to show that you don't always need the latest of hardware to have fun.
The 1070 is starting to show up as a minimum recommended gpu. My 1660ti is still holding on for dear life with an overclock but the time is coming for the older mid-range cards.
@@DigitalJedi I'm pretty sure it's 970 in most recent games. But yes there are some with 1070 but not as much as the 970 and 1060
Yeah I'm starting to contemplate properly sitting down and tuning the snot out of mine, I'm lucky to have a well cooled gigabyte one, it probably won't save it that much tho
Well I have a gtx 1650 which performs way lower than a gtx 1070
@@nasraz5174 yeah it does, I find that my 1070 is a little better than my friends' 1660s
i managed to get the asrock 6600 xt phantom gaming D and with an OC on the core and memory i managed to beat the 3060 ti in furmark almost hitting 11k points. I was happy with this and the card. Never goes over 60 degrees.
That’s great, perhaps I’ll try overclocking this one
@@RandomGaminginHD would be cool to see the results
@@RandomGaminginHD yes please :)
I refuse to believe this without proof. The performance difference between the 3060 ti and 6600xt is just way too big for an overclock to get you close to the 3060 tis performance, you would need a 15-20% performance boost to get near its performance and today’s cards just don’t overclock that far. The phantom gaming d doesn’t even have that much higher of a clock than other aib models so I just don’t get how you surpass the 3060 ti.
@@footlettuce1947 calm down nvidia fanboy lmao. He's just stating how his oc-ed card performs, you are free to disagree but no need to be aggressive over this lol
I actually managed to get one for 380 when it lauched and have been so happy with it after replacing my 470 for playing a little bit older games and rts's at 1440p
That’a awesome, glad you got a good price on it
I've ordered one in the US for 500, but I hope I'll be able to sell my rx 580 to recoup the cost. GPU prices are a double edged sword
Jealous and upset because I’m still on my rx580 and can’t find a GPU remotely like that for that price in California.
Currently selling my RX 580 Sapphire in box for $350😂 I bought it for $100 before the market tank.
@@youtubeaccount7544 exactly! The whole market is relative. Having a GPU is so valuable at this point its possible to get good deals
Im still rocking a 970 sc evga, bought it for £99 a year ago, now theyre about 150-200
Yeah and still pretty capable too!
Rocking a gtx 1060 6GB I got for 55 euro last year. XD
@@badass6300 Nice deal
@@badass6300 NO WAY!
@@badass6300 super powerful for cheap
Just got one for 300$ cheaper then a 3060 I don’t think I’ll regret it
If we're talking about very highly optimized games, I think Doom Eternal takes the cake by a mile. That game on Vulkan is a BEAST! Do you have it?
It's the best and it can do raytracing and DLSS on Linux :)
It's actually one of the few games that does see a MASSIVE performance drop with the 6600XT running PCIe 3.0 based on Hardware Unboxed and other tests. Still more than playable but it's stark when you compare it.
I've played loads of well-optimized games lately. Having trouble finding a game my 6800 XT can't do 1440p 170FPS in. Tales of Arise sometimes dips to like 150FPS, but it's so pretty. I ran RE8 at a locked 170FPS, max settings minus RT, even when they had the Denuvo issues. No framerate dips when those sisters came around.
Feels so weird. Hoping to stick with this card for the next 6 years.
Forza Horizon 4!
@@FFFan3445 Are you for real? Didn't expect this tbh.
aged like fine wine, huh?
Here in the US graphics cards are usually in stock just never at Msrp, it dropped about a few weeks ago but it got really high again.
Yeah noticed that here too. Saw a few 3060tis dropping then they shot back up again
It's been a real pain honestly. I don't have a microcenter really nearby to camp out at. I've been trying to pick up a mod-range gpu for an editing and gaming rig. The 6600XT, 6700XT, 3060ti and 3070 have been appealing to me but I can't find any for a reasonable (and I'm stretching reasonable) price.
@@DigitalJedi I'm feeling more and more grateful about getting my 6700 xt red devil a couple of months ago for $625.00 usd on my local Facebook market. Apparently the young guy that sold it to me (a stand up chap) managed to get a 6900 xt right after getting the 6700 and agreed to my offer of 200 dollars lower than what he was asking. Sometimes if you strike up a little convo and are generally friendly rather than being cut throat and down to business about the item, you'll get a good reaction out of people. Although during these times I understand a little bit of firmness about your interest doesn't hurt, but people are kind of turned off by overly thirsty buyers some times. Target someone that you think is a fellow gamer and chat about your plans for the card and what you're upgrading from. I find that offering someone a lower or more "reasonable" price with a little explanation behind the reasoning goes a long way with people too.
Bought my 1080ti ftw3 for £280 just before lockdown *feels good mann*
Man, video card names confuse me sometimes. I thought this was going to be about the old nvidia 6600 from like 2004, then I seen "8GB Memory" on the box and my brain threw a 404 for a split second.
That's actually hylarious XD
Imagine modding an old 6600 to have 8 gigs of ram though.
I had a Geforce 6800XT before
🤣🤣🤣
This isn't possible unless you've lived in an Nvidia bubble for years.
@@harsesishoktar9386 it is possible if you like computers but don't necesarily care about the all new hardware, if you knew how long it took me to know that AMD was a thing you would probably cringe.
bought one for $380 about 2 weeks ago, and it's great. now that the price has gone down further, this is definitely a good buy
There's a bunch showing up on Ebay for $300 or less. The market corrects itself eventually.
Fortnite has stuttering issues for about a few months now, they messed up something with the rendering and it stutters whenever its loading many things at once, the reason why 1440p stuttered less is because that area was already loaded from the past game.
and if you're cranking up the settings to epic it's like unplayable, i think it's becouse of the drivers
Ah ok thanks for explaining. It’s been stuttering on all my hardware lately.
If you put a lower frame rate cap, the stuttering goes away. It's because of CPU loading on the main thread when running uncapped frame rates e.g. for benchmarking
@@RandomGaminginHD I love u
@@johna527 makes sense but for a competitive player higher frame rate makes a huge difference (especially in Fortnite where you always have to hit your shotgun shots well)
Really love this card over 3060 (very high pricing in India), I've paired it with R5 3600x + 16x2 3200MHz ram + B450 msi mobo, I ways play on 1080p res and I am too getting a very decent 145+ or 100 + fps on very high or high max settings, good card for 1080p high refresh rate gaming !!
You should at the very least upgrade the motherboard to allow the gpu to run on pci e gen 4.
oddly I have this exact setup lol
@@alfiandy4494 you only lose 5 percent
@@JesManVP do B450's have SAM feature, if so what models are a bang for the buck?
@@alfiandy4494 Of all benchmarks I've seen that compared the two, the only game I've seen that made a statistically significant difference was a 10fps hit in Death Stranding, and the game was still in the 90+ range. Other titles, 1-2 FPS hit. It *seriously* doesn't matter.
Fast forward to today and the 6600XT is one of the best price per performance cards out there lol
Exactly. For Most of the crap the 6600 xt got at release, today it is one of the best cards available, that can Give Great performance and is not costing a fortune.
@@raahim11 yeah. In my country there's a store that sells the best pc's for gaming with cheap prices compared to other stores. I was planning to buy the pc with a rtx 3060 cuz i have a budget. But it was a little over my budget. A lot of deciding days later i checked the store again. And they added a pc with an rx6600 xt. That pc was 250$ cheaper than the rtx 3060 pc. Without deciding for days i bought the pc with rx6600xt and i save up my savings for something else lol.
Just need another polaris(price-perf value), until that, I'm running my 280x, until it dies.
Well if scalping ever ends that might happen again. I wouldn't really hold my breath though.
Same here still rocking that 280x :)
It goes in cycles. Eventually they’ll be a flood of cheap used gpus on the market.
well if youre ever in china saw some rx580 for about 250$ just bring it back with you had quite a bit of yeston and dual cards at every store
280 - 290x do 1080p just fine long time ago ftw
I bought my 1080ti in January of last year for £420. Still a beast of a card.
I wasnted to buy one from my friend. I was a day too late.
Nice
At this rate I'll be hoping my undervolted second hand Strix 1080ti lasts as long as the Voodoo 3 I have in my retro PC! Spending £200 and flogging off my equally second hand 1080 3 years ago, looks to have been a master stroke...
I don't envy anyone having to deal with the new Grapics card 'normal'.
I need a new GPU and cause of my work I need the VRAM ... So that means 8GB is on the low end for me... And 10GB and above is wanted... Gulp... I normally go for the xx80ti but a 3080ti is insane amounts of money as a 3080.
FML...
A power supply isn't that expensie dude, you should fix that whenever you can XD
Wow a voodoo 3???..thats a great card...look after it dude theyre super rare
@@razerow3391 have you checked out the 3060 with 12gb of vram?
@@razerow3391 go with AMD then, they have more vram. 6700xt (12gb) or 6800 (16gb)
I managed to pick up a 3070ti and b550 mobo in a bundle and a r5 5600x for around £1100 new which isn’t that bad for current market prices
that's a good deal where did you get it from?
I have an ASUS Dual OC 6600XT and run Days Gone at 3440x1440 with max settings and average 62FPS. Card is definitely impressive.
Considering I was able to pick one of these up for around the same going rate as a 1660 Super currently retails for and sell my existing 1660 Super for twice what I paid for it, this card makes all the sense in the world. Faster than a 3060 and cheaper as well. In a market gone mad this is what sanity looks like sadly.
Thats the most simplistic title ive ever seen from you. You good man?
Haha yeah just fed up with the PC hardware market
"There are now 9 1080tis on the market. GTX 1080ti, RTX 3060, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080, Titan Xp (2016), Titan Xp (2017), RTX 2080 Super, and now RX 6600xt. These cards all perform around the same as each other. Thats really something." -Kenzo Evans a top comment being
Bought an RX5600xt at the beginning of last year and my confidence in that purchase has increased 1000% since this GPU crisis kicked off lol
Same here dude lmao
Not amd but I bought a pre built pc with a 2070 super for 1500 and I can now sell the 2070 super alone for 1500. So I know what you mean. But that will never happen 😉😀
I'm here with my 1650 super judging these cards like a champ
Got a 1650 75W low profile in an old Dell Optiplex (7th Gen i5, 16Gb RAM). Does an admirable job.
Well as long as it plays all the games i want to play im good. For some reason the amd counterparts are always been expensive in my country. So it was a no brainer
lol
I’ve been rocking my RX590 for a little over two years now and I’m content with the 1080p performance enough to wait for prices to drop back to earth - assuming that ever happens. /:
You will wait forever. Scalpers and Miners are here to stay.
Me too my RX 590 rocks
I actually upgraded from an xfx rx 590 to rtx 3060, even that was an amazing difference. But the rx 590 is more than enough till gpu prices get better.
Launch day 1080 Ti user here , haven't had to upgrade just yet. Watching this whole GPU market drama with a bowl of popcorn haha
Very lucky! I should’ve kept mine...
the issue you pointed out is a well known driver level issue because they optimized them for their new ryzen chips
AMD gpus work better with ryzen now? In what?
@@toxy3580 any ryzen system with pcie 4.0 and smart access memory
@@thekinglov265 unless I'm missing something, most modern motherboards (AMD or Intel) mobos have resizeable bar (what AMD calls SAM) too. Intel 500-series MOBOs also supports pcie 4 with 11th gen CPUs.
@@thekinglov265 i love ryzen but sam is mostly a meme, or rather resizable bar in general.
@@DavidLeAsdf thats why its a driver level issue and not a hardware one
Thanks for the shoutout. Feel pretty good about having bought two 1080ti's for 400 bucks each two years ago. xD
Right now, Ray tracing doesn't seem like a big deal but in the future, when hardware makes ray tracing more affordable and accessible, i feel developers will make it the norm.
Exactly what's happening now
What rendering mode were you using with Fortnite? AMD gpus don't like dx11, they perform significantly better on dx12. I'm also pretty sure it's being cpu bottlenecked while playing on medium settings or below, 11th gen intel or ryzen 5000 does make a difference in my experience.
I think I'll cry. No laughter here 😥
I am starting to think my 1070 GTX will be my last GPU purchase.
Why?
@@ash_1419 because of the state of the GPU market right now! You did watch the video?
You should laugh because u got a 1070
@@faisal-nl2vf And it has been faithful to me! You are right!
@@UncleMikeRetro lul it's not like prices will never go down..
I bought this card the other day and I am super happy with it. The market has gone to hell, and really the only reason for upgrading is that I got such a good offer on my old card. I agree the high price is kind of necessary (yet awful) to actually keep cards in stock for a while. Here in Sweden you can get hold of them for MSRP. Which can't be said about nvidias offerings. I was surprised of how well the card performed once you stop looking at "ultra" benchmarks on YT. With balanced settings both CP2077, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition blew me away. I had no idea I would be able to play Metro Exodus at 1440p with "normal RT" hovering around 60fps. :) and CP2077 I settled for a nice mix between low/medium/high in 1440p and locked the game to 50fps (freesync) It runs smooth, no tearing, no stutters, and it looks incredible! I actually didn't think I was going to be able to play those game with such satisfaction.
I wouldn't hold my breath until the prices go back to "normal". Because i have a feeling these will be the new normal. With mining becoming so mainstream i don't see it going away and with inflation kicking in we'd be lucky to get anywhere near old prices.
Prices dropped currently and continue to drop.
Every card from the GTX 10,16 and RTX 20 series bought before the shortage is a sound investment.
If one can find an RX 6000 or RTX 3000 at MSRP and flip their used card for supply and demand price. It's an ez win. A bit opportunistic and selfish some might say, but it's human nature to want the bigger piece of the pie.
If you bought ANYTHING pre covid it was a good investment
I bought a laptop right before the GPU shortage hit. Their prices increased a lot after the shortage in my country. I bought mine for 10k (about $1200) and now anything with matching performance to that is sold for 14k+
As a random update to this nine-month old review, right now the prices of these cards is actually correcting itself... on Ebay. Like, $280 or even less, where the price always should have been.
Well it's a better card than the rtx3060 and cheaper at today prices ,so imo its a good card,great review,btw did you enable S.A.M ?
He is testing with an intel CPU
I just bought one. I got it for $650 in total. I can’t wait, It’s usually $850 for this card so I just bought it Instantly lmao. I’m going from a old laptop with a 1050 to a custom pc with a ryzen 7 3700x an 6600xt. I’ve been saving up for 2 years
When you watching review of GPU which is on the "cheap side" and worth more than your "gaming" PC. Nearly twice 🤷♂️.
TBH it is interesting to see how lot of CPU/GPU aged really really well and still going strong after quite a bit of time
17:06 bruh I never knew you could do that in RDR 2 lmao
My 1080ti blew up like some firecracker this january after 3 years of service(brought that way overpriced and after adding waterblock it costed me 1150+ euro sadly) great overclocker it was. Just recently brought 3060ti for 691eur which isnt much better than my last gpu, sooo much bss here...
That's bad luck man. A decent card should at least last 5 years.
@@jamieammar6131 Doesn't beat my 8 year old mobile CPU (i7-4700MQ) holding up since 2013 at 3.4GHz.
@@saricubra2867 CPU should not die within a decade unless there's a major catastrophe. GPUs die faster of course.
@@jamieammar6131 It was overclocked to its max possible cababilities with 175%power limit i think, custom bios and 2170+mhz on core, but that death was to quick anyways i think the same ,but well things happens so..
The best way is to forget 4K and buy a high end card for 1080P max settings.
Because then, even in 5 years time, while at 4K the card would be struggling, it would still be playing at 1080P with high settings no problem.
The only time I'd use the phrase "future proof" to a degree.
Hardware Unboxed show it being one of the best cooled, sound and performance. Good choice.
well duh, least power draw.
But its still so underwhelming. Barely better than 3060 on 1440p average, even without dlss or raytracing accounted for.
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j But you can find the 6600 in stock, and no one uses RT or DLSS, the most played games are CSGO, League of Legends, GTA V and so on, none of these support or need none of those features.
@@hunterfabio
1: point was that 6600xt is barely better while priced higher
2: rt and dlss are both widely used
3: you dont need neither gpu for those games you mentioned. A gtx 1070 or 1080, or amd 5500xt or 580 are enough to play those games not only in 1440p, but even 4k (with maybe some lower settings or not 100 fps)
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j RTX and DLSS are barely in any games as is.... Literally the only reason they exist is for MINECRAFT at this moment
@@jesusbarrera6916 um theres like 100-150 games supporting that, all of which are relatively new and popular games.
july 2022 update: this now costs less than a damn 3060 here in my country. making this the best 1080p high end and 1440p mid end card in the market, unless you care for the raytracing gimmick. also that entire pcie3 vs 4 argument is completely stupid. i tested the card both on gen3 and 4 and the difference can be thrown in the margin of error with a fps diff of around 2-5.
What can i do to get one of those without having to pay
Are you ok with having a criminal record? Because I might know a way
I can bail you out of prison
Fork over that bussy
You need to know where the closest miner or scalper lives. Also you might need a firearm just in case. You might end up with stuff even better than a 6600xt.
you wouldn't.... download a gpu
Nice to see you do a vid on this! I had to upgrade and managed to get this since it's like the only option lol but I've been using it for 4k gaming and it's been an absolute treat! And it runs super cool and quiet as well
Qwz
I'm just here comfy with my 580 8GB version which now goes for around 600 euros which is thrice the price compared to 2019 since miners love this card for some reason.
The thing is that AMD cards especially The Rx 480, 580, vega 56, 64 and Radeon VII are some of The Best Cards for Mining.
600 euro for an rx580? i could buy today for £280 easy.
@@TC-tn9tb how dude
@@sir_vector7835 that’s how much they are used
Bought used 1080ti for $310 back in early 2018. Probably the best purchase I ever made.
Its Not only the FPS the frametime should never Go over 20ms otherwise the lag would made the experience worse even if you got like 360fps.
@VishVadeva i had an issue with a mid-low end card (GTX 650) where i would feel and hear stuff through my G25 and headset before i would see it on screen. It made Beamng nearly unplayable.
@@Ferrari255GTO same dude
This market can work for you if upgrading. I upgraded my kid’s 1660 super to the 6600xt and then sold the 1660 super for more than I paid for the 6600xt. Crazy.
I still really love my Strix 1080Ti, it has been a big staple in my life for years.
6/14/2023
Got my 6600 XT for $185. Definitely a great card at this price.
No way bro
6600XT blows the doors off a 3050 all day long.
Lovely review. I'd like to see some of your low end machine rebuild where you get some crazy old FX powerd machine going, or the like.
In the upcoming Forza Horizon 5, they said there will be auditory ray-tracing when driving out in the open, and I'm hoping that my 1660S will be able to take advantage of that (since it technically is possible to enable visual ray-tracing with a 1660S)
RT has been tested on the 1660s it was a total fail for that card no RT cores so it's understandable.
I do wonder how that'll work, but it's probably going to use RT cores just the same as other RT, so the 1660S will likely bog down in that.
I bought my EVGA GTX 1080ti sc back in March 2021 for 550$ cad , still running amazing and I couldn’t be happier for such a low price
Hey RandomGaming, will you do any more reviews of gaming with workstation cards? Like the Quadro P2000 which can be found cheap on the secondhand market?
Yeah I’m bidding on a couple now on eBay haha
@@RandomGaminginHD I'm looking forward to it. Workstation cards are quite underrated for gaming. They're usually the cards that have readily available stock and are sold closer to their MSRP.
your titles are getting better and better
Just make sure you put it into a PCIE 4.0 slot.
There is a RUclips showing one of these 6600XT's running in PCIe 3, and 4. The FPS on 4 was literally 1 higher across the board. Virtually/realistically zero difference, when taking into account margin for error.
2 hours after posting this comment, i'll go downtown to buy a computer with a GTX 1080 Ti
Msi nailed it with the design , it looks like the Lambo Aventador of GPUs
me with my 1650 [not super] :_)
People will always be using older hardware, so don't think like that. People still use 1060,1050,1030,900 series and much older and many even without a dedicated GPU.
@@miscellaneousgaming8533 true, it's not the end of the world if you don't the latest hardware
@@miscellaneousgaming8533 1060 3GB here. Wish I bought the 6GB version or an RX580 lmao
Also here with my 1650 non-super. Very satisfied with this, although I don't really play the latest games. I used it mostly for transcoding and upscaling.
proud 1080ti strix oc owner from launch here, holding tight and riding the wave until the GPU crisis settles down.
in india, this card is currently about $350 cheaper than the 3060Ti and about $100 cheaper than 3060
probably makes it a decent deal then
This GPU costs 9800 BRL(1868 USD) in Brasil... our average montly wage is 1380 BRL(263 USD)
I just bought my 6650 xt for $280 (with the last of us part 1, in addition to me selling my 1660 ti to fund the purchase) This was a stupid crazy cheap deal. Now it is back up to $334 usd withouth discount. Glad I made my purchase and waited.
Are you turning off AA when you run 1440p? Helps with the performance hit, and isn't really needed at that resolution.
I found a 1660 Ti from scan a few weeks ago and yesterday i traded at CEX a Nintendo Switch & RX 550 4gb for a RTX 2060 Palit. We're all buying the upgrades atm, good video as always i have a feeling you live close to me. Kettering / Midlands area
✨Just happy to get a long video again. been missing this. Wish you all the best
Steve: Raytracing is not worth it
Nvidia Execs: *angry raytraced noises
Haha it’s a cool “oh wow that looks good” feature, but I’d rather have the extra frames than prettier puddles
This with a cx550 an i5 9400f and 16gb of ddr4 is my dream.
Yea i bought this fella right when it came.. i regret it though, it was for 17000CZK!!! Today its worth 11500CZK new! Still, performance-wise, i am satisfied. Me got asrock dual fan OC and it runs VERY cool and quiet, even if oc'd to its limits EDIT: my card has got samsung memory on it, able to reach 2270Mhz rock stable, i thought it was worth mentioning
I have a 5600 XT I bought in April 2020, just before all the prices went stupid in the US. Still a long sight better than nothing.
If only we can get one
That lol on the title is what hooked me, is that what folk call "clickbait"?
when you stalled the plane... I laughed pretty hard lol
Here I am again watching your videos I've already watched like four times.
that first streak was awsome, great video as always :-)
Best frames per watt card for 1080 gaming. And still a competitor at 1440.
I picked one up last month for $220.
What a beast of a card for that price point
I am so glad crypto crashed. I picked up a RX 6700 in october for $420. If I had waited six months I could have got it for $300. I'm still happy it's where it's at now.
I just got one for $260 on ebay and I love it!
great video
I will get this card for my next build. I don't care about raytracing. I already got evga gt 750w 80+ gold modular psu, asus tuf gaming gt 301 case, silentiumpc fera 5 dual fan cpu cooler, B550 asrock pro4 mobo. On monday i will order 500gb ssd and 3600mhz 2 x 8gb ram, then i only have cpu and gpu left to order☺
i'm glad i bought a used 1050ti before all this shortage , 1050ti still rocking in 2021
So glad I got a reference 5700 on sale for 280 right after the red dead 2 launch. An XT bios flash and Artic Accelero III cooler mod later and it's a beast that I am in love with
The stuttering in Fortnite happens when you use directx 12, because it is still in beta it has too many issues.
Videos like these make me happy I got my 5700xt from Best Buy for 349.99 when it released
got my 1080 ti for $280 about a year ago, couldn't be happier for 1440p 144hz gaming value !
Okay what happened in COD the server knew you was recording so it was like lets take a holiday and let him look real good in COD. We will get him next time....lol...great video.
I gave in and bought a used 1070 from EVGA. Paid 375, and am now keeping the card until probably 2023 or whenever the prices actually begin to decline.
After the mining crisis got one for 210-ish dollars converted and runs great
the most undetated channel
It's funny to me that this is probably one of the fastest pieces of hardware I've seen you review, but it's not a positive review because the state of the market.
The medium preset on Flight simulator had the worst pop in I have ever seen
The worst ever, you say? Go play the original Crysis on Low settings. You'll never say that again.
@@selohcin Oh really? Youre telling me a game from 2007 on low settings has worse pop in than a game from 2020 on medium? no way.
@@g76agi No wayyy. Are these Home baked?
@@selohcin I dont doubt it bud but from this game it should not exist