THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING cooking at AMD, and this month it’s the launch of the Radeon RX 6600 XT. At $379, this midrange RDNA2 card costs $100 less than the 6700 XT and is aimed at 1080p gaming. It looks expensive compared with the RTX 3060, which starts at $329, however, you won’t find a 3060 at anywhere near that price at the moment.
Inside the 6600 XT is the new Navi 23 GPU with 2,048 stream processor, and 32 compute units running at a base clock of 1,968MHz, and a 2,359MHz boost. The GPU is significantly smaller than the Navi 22, which means more chips per wafer. That’s good news for supplies, as small chips mean more chips. There’s 8GB of GDDR6 and 32MB of L3 ‘Infinity’ cache, quite a drop from the 6700’s 96MB, but again, it helps with supply issues.