Idd both Nvidia are AMD and their partners are taking advantage of the current climate and situation, which is just well, shite. That's why I really want another player in the field to bring something else to the table - like Intel with their upcoming Xe dGPU's. Though, its increasing sounding like that will under perform and undeliver.
It sucks because there isn't much choice to buy GPU's, particularly for those who want a budget card. Its the same thing with CPU's, less BOM and and yet charged more. Like you said these 6600XT are going to be garbage for raytracing and no DLSS to make up for it. FSR is going to look a bit pants because this is a 1080P card and AMD (to put salt in the wounds) are charging the same as their previous 7 tier card (the 5700XT) and will likely be outperformed at higher resolutions due to differences memory bandwidth and other factors like being limited to PCI-e 4x8.
I digress though, AMD can suck it it at those prices and should this continue I'm going to look elsewhere in the my future builds for both CPU and GPU's.
Last edited by hinch - on 03 August 2021
