6600XT has PCI-E Gen 4 x8 instead of x16
https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-radeon-rx-6600-xt-release-date-price/
If you are wondering why that matters, the 5500XT also had a similar setup and if you have a pci-e gen 3 system, then you would be getting PCI-E x8 as well instead of x16. And in certain games there were noticeably worse performance on gen 3 vs gen 4.
Seems that AMD hasn't learned their lesson. Now this really wouldn't be a problem per say if all modern CPUs were all PCI-E gen 4 but AMD's brand new APUs, the 5600G and 5700G are limited to PCI-E gen 3. If you were thinking to go for a Team Red budget build... Well you would get a double whammy besides the fact that both of them are terrible value to start with. I believe Intel's i3 might also be gen 3.
Lenovo Notebooks with missing H264 Encoder support are getting Bios Updates that restore it.
Apparently the well known OEMs only "fix" things after they get caught
NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Card Prices Won’t Increase Further In Q4 2021 As GDDR6 DRAM Demand Falls Down With Crypto
One thing I will say is that once the stock and price comes back to normal, it could be a wise decision to get Ampere or RDNA 2 card and then wait and see whether or not Lovelace/RDNA 3 will be in a better stock situation than to try your luck with Lovelace/RDNA 3 from the gecko. Because if the stock situation turns out to be just as bad if not worse and if mining boom happens again, then we could see a repeat of this gen.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
