We’re within the midst of a pandemic and a worldwide chip crunch, however that isn’t stopping AMD from releasing one more new GPU. The $380 RX 6600 XT is right here, and it’s now essentially the most reasonably priced member of AMD’s present 6000-series GPU lineup. While its specs aren’t fairly as eye-popping as a few of its dearer siblings, AMD says the 6600 XT was designed to ship sturdy efficiency for gaming at 1080p.

The 6600 XT options 32 compute models with 8GB of DDR6 RAM, 32MB of AMD’s Infinity Cache, and a recreation clock of 2359 MHz. Additionally, with an influence draw of simply 160 watts, AMD says that RX 6600 XT necessities are low sufficient that homeowners ought to solely want a 500-watt energy provide, as an alternative of the 800- or 1000-watt PSUs usually wanted to help high-end playing cards just like the 6900 XT or Nvidia’s 3080 Ti. In reality, ASRock is even making one model of the 6600 XT with a single cooling fan, so it could actually slot in smaller techniques with micro- ATX or mini-ITX motherboards.

AMD’s predominant purpose with the 6600 XT is to help gaming at 1080p at max settings throughout a variety of titles, particularly as a result of two-thirds of recent gaming displays shipped in 2020 have 1080p resolutions. AMD claims that when in comparison with Nvidia’s RTX 3060, the 6600 XT affords 15% higher efficiency on common in video games like Cyberpunk 2077, Doom Eternal, Forza Horizon 4, and others. Overall, the card suits performance-sensible in between the RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti.

But with help for options like AMD Smart Boost, Radeon Anti-Lag, and AMD’s Super FX Resolution, the 6600 XT remains to be greater than able to supporting 1440p and even 4K gaming, you simply might need to mess around with the sport’s graphics settings a bit. And for many who dwell and die by millisecond reactions, AMD additionally says its Anti-Lag characteristic can cut back enter latency by as much as 13%. When it involves VR, AMD says that the 6600 XT exceeds all of the minimal necessities for contemporary HMDs, so it needs to be greater than able to powering each conventional and VR gaming experiences.

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Unlike AMD’s earlier 6000-series desktop GPUs, there received’t be a reference mannequin for the 6600 XT. AMD is counting on all of its traditional companions, together with Asus, MSI, ASRock, Gigabyte, and others, to provide retail variations of the cardboard.

Of course that brings up the considerably sore topic of availability, which has made it more and more troublesome for avid gamers to get their fingers on new GPUs over the previous 12-18 months. AMD says that it’s working “extremely closely” with its companions to get as many playing cards into avid gamers’ fingers as potential, although with none particular numbers to go by, it’s laborious to say how simple or troublesome will probably be to truly buy one at launch.

But if you happen to’re been ready for a brand new and comparatively reasonably priced GPU to carry down your 1080p battlestation, the RX 6600 XT looks as if an excellent element for the job. As at all times, we’ll have to attend till we are able to check one out to make certain.

AMD’s RX 6600 XT is slated to go on sale on Aug. 11 for $380.