You May Want To Get An AMD Radeon RX 6600 While You Can
AMD has announced its final GPU release of this year. The Radeon RX 6600 has 28 compute units and runs at just over 2Ghz (2,044MHz). The card can be configured with up to 8GB of GDDR6 RAM. Compared to the 32 compute units, 2359mhz clock speed, and 8GB of GDDR6 RAM found on the RX 6600XT, this card should be only marginally less powerful than its more expensive, older sibling.
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The RX 6600 will also ship with ray-tracing support out of the box. Here the company claims you can get more than 60 frames per second while playing Far Cry 6 at both 1080p and 1440p, provided you also take advantage of its DLSS-like FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling technology. Ray-tracing performance has consistently been a weak point among AMD’s RDNA 2 GPUs, so we’ll have to see if the RX 6600 lives up to the claims.
It’s 2021, so, as you would expect, the AMD Radeon RX 6600 will ship with ray-tracing support. Ray-tracing has always been something that AMD card have struggled with since its introduction, so hopefully this new GPU is able to keep up with nVidia offerings a little better in that respect.
The Radeon RX 6600 can be purchased now. All the usual suspects like ASUS, Gigabyte and XFX have signed up to make them. Pricing starts at $329, but Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO, recently mentioned that we should expect the current global chip shortage to continue through the second half of next year. So, these things will be relatively hard to find once initial stocks are depleted.
