You know its very bad when the card is universally panned not only in every review, but on the amd subreddit, which is one of the most ... unique fandoms ive ever seen.
The AMD subreddit hasn't been very nice to AMD since Navi 21 released last year and people haven't been able to get cards at MSRP.
That's not to say the 6600XT's price isn't terrible.
But the 6600XT's price is terrible because all graphics cards' price is terrible nowadays. There's obviously no reason for the 6600XT to cost more than half of a 6800XT. The only reason AMD put the MSRP bar so high on that card is because this way they get a larger share of the scalping that the distributors+retailers are doing to customers, but to be honest that sounds fair-
ish to me.
Should the global semiconductor+packaging shortage and mining craze go away (
spoiler alert: it won't anytime soon), then AMD could price this card down to $275 and probably still make a profit.
What I honestly don't get is all these reviewers panning the 6600XT for its high price because they're comparing it to imaginary prices of Geforces and fellow Radeons.
The 6600XT at $380 sounds terrible compared to the MSRPs of all the graphics cards released until late 2020, but IMO it's a bit silly to claim "
it's only $20 below the 3060 Ti" when virtually no one is getting the 3060 Ti for $399.
When I go to Newegg the only graphics cards in stock that I find close to the $380 price are the RT-less Turing models like the 1650 Super (no DLSS or RT for those, whoops.. thankfully FSR does work). The cheapest Geforce with DLSS and RT that I can find is the 2060 for $600.
I get that these reviewers are (like us consumer) frustrated with the ongoing situation, but I wonder if lashing out at AMD for establishing a MSRP that is closer to real street prices is fair here.
TPU did a pretty good job at making performance-per-dollar ratios for the ongoing real prices for each GPU, and here's what they found:
If you are searching for the best bang per buck, you will love this page. We looked each card's current USD price up on Newegg and used that and the relative performance numbers to calculate a performance-per-dollar index. For products no longer available, the last available reasonable price point was considered. For recent releases that are completely out of stock, we looked up a realistic price on eBay (brand-new, buy now, USA). If the tested card is at risk of being sold out and resold at higher prices, we estimate a price based on current market conditions and use it. In this case, the vendor MSRP is also indicated as an additional chart bar.
Even if the 6600XT sells for $600, at 1080p it's still the card with DX12 Ultimate features that has the best performance-per-dollar in the market.
And at least this will be terrible for mining, with a 128bit wide GDDR6 bus.
What's also interesting is HUB looked into PCIe 3 vs 4 due the possible bigger implications with being x8 lanes. Doom Eternal was the one outlier that had a very significant drop of 25%, at least with their test it meant performance dropping from 5700 XT level to below that of the 5600 XT. This does beg an interesting question in terms of how much of the transistor and power savings were from dropping from x16 to x8 lanes.
If the difference is that big, then this is a very important point and owners of pre-Zen2 and pre-Rocket Lake should be aware of it.
But then it's also a big problem for all the Cezanne APUs out there that only have PCI Express 3.0, from the widely recommended 5600/5800H to the newly released 5300G and 5700G, for which the 6600 XT should theoretically be a good fit for.
