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Captain_Yuri said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

From what I could read on other sites, AMD really made a ton of them. One of the online retailers interviewed in one of the news said that they got more of one single 6600XT model at launch than they got of the all the 3060, 3060Ti, 3070, 3080 and 3090 models combined at launch.

As a result, the markup is quite low making the card ironically good value now, as it's main competitor in it's price class right now is the 1660, which is getting trashed by the 6600XT.

This card and it's high supply could also be the reason why the prices of AMD GPUs didn't go down much over the last couple months, AMD concentrated it's production capacity obviously on the 6600XT to have enough supply at launch.

Yea Optimum Tech that I posted earlier did a market analysis that showed it had MSRP or close to it.

Personally, I still wouldn't consider it a good value even at MSRP. There are too many issues with this card like pci-e x8, low infinity cache, low memory bus and etc. Most people that are going to spend money in this segment most likely have older systems with pci-e gen 3 which makes it have even less performance. While one could say it's good value if the person has no choice and needs a GPU now, it's very hard to openly recommend this card to anyone that has a working GPU even if it's close to MSRP because of all it's deficits.

Yeah, I forgot the crucial word that is comparatively, as in being comparatively good value right now as the next best thing in it's price class are either the 1660 (non-S or Ti) or the RX 580, both being much weaker than the 6600XT, which is actually slightly more powerful than a 2070.

I agree with you that it's not good value when dealing with absolute pricings, but then again, no GPU currently does.