So Ii decided to do today's review of the rx 6600 XT a little bit later than the launch date,
and the reason i did that was because i wanted to see the street pricing of these cards where
AMD told me that they were going to come in from 379 usd or if you're in australia from $589
aussie dollars but upon speaking to some people who are getting these products in the shelves
they're telling me in australia you can expect this thing to come in at around about 750 aussie
dollars and then if you're in the united states i'm guessing that you're probably going to expect
to pay around $500 usd plus and there's a few reasons for this as well so let's get all those
gaming benchmark numbers out of the way and then talk about everything that the 6600xt is and isn't
so those gaming benchmark numbers aside it's going to be very hard to get excited about
the 6600 xt where the performance falls pretty much similar to that of an rtx 3060 or a 5700 xt
but of course as you go up to 4k the performance does scale off a little
bit and that's because they're using a 128 bit memory bus on this graphics card even
though you get 8 gigabytes of vram it does start to scale off at higher resolutions so
i wouldn't particularly recommend this card for 4k gaming but that being said at 1080p and also 1440p
it does give out an okay experience considering you could get it for 379 usd or in australia 589
because this is where the biggest problem comes in and that of course is the mining profitability
where even though the ethereum mining profitability dropped
per the absolute value was hoping the value of ethereum as a gamer would have stayed the same
or come down coupled with the profitability that would have really helped out the graphics card
prices for gamers but unfortunately the mining profitability dropped but the price of ethereum
went up right around this time and so that's pretty much left that profitability for everyday
24-hour earnings for miners still pretty much the same and so what this means with a card like the
6600 xt at least from the calculations i did hear even after you're paying 10 cents a kilowatt hour
it's still going to earn a minor 2.50 a day usd and those 32 mega hashes especially if you're
going to undervolt the card just means that the card is pretty much going to have a price floor
when it comes from what miners are prepared to pay versus what gamers are prepared to pay and we've
seen this with the rtx 3060 ti for example with the low hash rate models that have been released
on the market versus the normal models which are selling for higher prices so what this means is
that the miners are always going to be there and they're willing to pay a certain price floor which
i believe is well above that of the gamers which are already angry that this card is costing 379
usd or in australia 589 aussie dollars even though i feel like if these cards hit the market at that
price the miners will soon buy them up with the current profitability levels but continuing on
that note of pricing there's obviously going to be a lot of people scratching their head
at the 5600 xt which was a sub 300 card versus the sub 400 card the 6600 xt where the price
performance of these cards is pretty much going to level out which is very bizarre considering
this is a generational improvement going to rdna 2 from the original rdna and the scariest thing
about this is ever since i've been looking at graphics cards as an enthusiast i've never seen
a trend like this in the graphics card industry in that every time we've had a new generational
improvement the price performance has improved from the previous generation and it's not like a
refresh for example we had the 600 series to the 700 series from nvidia back in the gtx days and
then amd they had the rx 470 going to the rx 570 pricing remained relatively the same even though
you've got a little bit more performance out of the cards so technically even on refresh series
you got better value for money so then what gives why are these cards coming out with higher prices
and people think well it's just amd and nvidia being greedy they can simply charge those prices
and it's actually got to do with another factor a big factor which we'll go into
in this review we y as well and that is inflation and i've been talking about this in the last six
months on the channel recently in the fomc minutes conversations from the federal reserve themselves
they've said that inflation is going to be essentially permanently transitory and that
if you had a 25 increase in tech prices they're going to remain at a 25 increase forever and then
inflation after that is going to be a lot lower than that initial surge of inflation which quite
simply means that if you had a dollar in 2019 it's probably in the tech scene lost about 25 percent
of its purchasing power unfortunately so in 2019 if you had a dollar then you would need a dollar
and 25 in 2021 to get the same amount of tech that you got back in 2019 if that makes any sense but
unfortunately here is where the worst part of all the pricing comes in and that is since 2019 to
2021 i would guess that most industries and most people especially working class people on average
are not earning 25 percent more money than they were in 2019 and so essentially what we have is
a lot of average gamers being priced out of the market due to inflation and then to compound
on that problem the cryptocurrency miners are adding to the price because they are creating
artificially more demand for gaming graphics cards so at the moment the gamers are at their worst
point in history for especially buying a pc gaming graphics card so my advice in the last few months
has just been simply to wait it out especially when these cards are coming well above their msrps
so hopefully after all that information you guys are still with me and we're going to talk
about the red devil card itself i'll put up the weight and also the dimensions of the card up on
the screen for you but one thing about this card was itself if you're looking to get one of these
cards if they come back closer to that msrp is that the red devil model i was very impressed
with what this had to offer not only was the noise and temperatures really well controlled
i was also really impressed with the aesthetic of the card i quite simply thought the way that
they've implemented the leds on the back plate the side and also the front plate as well as the
lighting up of all the input output ports if you guys are into building a bling pc which let's face
it a lot of people are this card is going to look phenomenal especially if you decide to vertically
mount it in your build though the red devil card has two modes and that is a silent and also a bias
oc mode i left it on the bios oc mode because the silent mode wasn't even necessary out of
the box we're talking about these fan speeds and temperatures out of the box this car went up to 40
fan speeds which was whisper quiet and also did a very good job of keeping temperatures extremely
low and then going up to 60 percent does increase the noise but does drop the temperatures more
i would suggest this if you want to overclock the card a little bit more than that of the default
spec the 80 and 100 fan speeds i wouldn't recommend these as the fan noises got simply
ridiculously loud and the diminishing returns of noise versus temperatures increased heavily
when we did this but speaking of overclocks i simply wouldn't bother if you were getting
this card to overclock it and in fact i would recommend the opposite where in my opinion this
was easily the most impressive part about the 6600 xt where i might do a low power consumption build
for you guys here on the channel where when i undervolted this card roughly 100 millivolt
as well as drop the clock speeds down to just over that of 2000 megahertz as well as upping
the vram speeds i got performance in the shadow of the tomb raider 4k benchmark very similar to
that of the default settings however the wattage went from roughly 140 watts down to under 80 watts
so quite simply seeing the wattage numbers for the fps you're getting this card right here is
got the best power efficiency that i've seen from any gravis card coming through the studio to date
at least in terms of raw rasterization performance though on the flip side if you're looking to get
this card for ray tracing then i wouldn't bother at this point in time i thought the ray tracing
performance just isn't there for the rx 6000 series in general the 6600 xt being no different
now the last thing on overclocking and under vaulting was the power limits out of the box and
i don't know if this is limited to the red devil xt or if it's a thing that's going to affect all
6600 xt's but the power limit out of the default settings did cause some very rare stuttering
on games and i alleviated this and this is not introduced in today's numbers where i manually
upped the power limit in the radeon software so this is a problem across all 6600 xts then you
may see either a v bios update or a driver update implemented to alleviate this problem and then
the last point to talk about with this card is the inputs and outputs where you get a hdmi 2.1
as well as three display port outs and having a metal back plate and front plate really makes this
card feel like a high quality item where i feel like power color are doing a very impressive job
with the 6600 xt in the way they've implemented it so now it's time to conclude the rx 6600 xt
review for you guys and who is this card going to be for well at its current street pricing
it's not going to be for many gamers let's put it that way because as we said earlier in this review
the crypto miners are going to soak these cards up with a price floor that i feel is going to be
higher than that of msrp and so that's the first problem and as long as this problem exists then
miners are simply going to be taking away cards that gamers would otherwise purchase and put in
a gaming pc and that's why the whole industry especially in the new part of the segment just
sucks to be in right now because of this crypto problem and demand from miners and at least when
it comes to inflation as well we won't know the true effect of that until the crypto demand goes
away and we can get back to some sort of normalcy with graphics cards so until then the gamers are
essentially getting worse value on these gravis cards at least at their street pricing and then
only once we get back to that phase can i give you an accurate recommendation of if 379 usd is
a good deal or not in 2021 but hey that's why i'm hoping the crypto rug pool comes sooner than later
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also let us know in the comments section below what you think of the 6600 xt launch i just think
it's another lackluster gpu launch in 2021 due to the crypto miners pretty much raising the prices
on the street pricing that's out there in the market though i love reading your thoughts and
opinions as always just like this question of the day here which comes from graphics card and they
ask can you do a video on installing this os on unsupported hardware and they talk about windows
11 where we did an optimization guide yesterday but we've also already installed windows 11 on
unsupported hardware and the way you do it is you get a windows 10 usb install and then you
put the windows 11. esd file on there or the wim file and then you can get around that i've also
done a video on that i'll put the link up here for you but with that aside i'm going to get on
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