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hinch on 13 October 2021
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Captain_Yuri said:
hinch said:

Reviews for the RX 6600 are out and unsurprisingly in 2021 fashion, they're bad..

Almost no uplift in performance from a last generation card (5600XT) with crap raytracing and costs more, assuming you can get for MSRP. The GPU market is a joke rn.

The biggest annoyance is how AMD gimps their lower end RDNA 2 cards. Thanks to the low infinity cache, it's terrible at anything but 1080p and even at 1080p, it's terrible. Pair that with only 8 lanes, terrible ray tracing and little to no ML... It really becomes a card that has no reason to exist. Sure the MSRP might be alright in todays market but you are basically getting a dead end card that's prescapled from the factory as it really should be $200 or lower.

Quite the shame really. Last year, we saw the crazy potential this generation had of getting PC gaming back to its feet after Nvidia's Turing was terrible value and AMD took a dump with Vega and RDNA 1 felt like a card with limited use case. But little did we know how greatly mining would affect these cards.

Here's hoping Intel will bring something innovative to the table with budget cards. But them going TSMC with their GPUs is gonna be a cause for concern for me.

Yeah they hate the way they intentially gimped it so they can segment the cards. These are super stripped down (from the bus, to the cache and memory) and cheap to make and yet are selling for previous mid range prices. Sadly there's no alternatives atm, even looking preowned. Sadly even their previous gen cards offer way more value then their current offering, when looking at respective launches.

True, these shouldn't be any more than $250 from AIB's and be closer to the $200 mark. The mining boom really has taken the wind out of consumer cards I feel but its also AMD and Nvidia making the most of the situation. Quite a shame really as AMD could offer some value in the market but they won't.

I hope Intel comes in swinging with Arc, but I'm going to keep my expectations at a minimum. With their stance on no restriction on mining and that they're also on TSMC means that availability will most likely be quite limited. Which probably means they won't price these too competitively. Though they are a new player so they could if they wanted to. Really want to see Intel make a dent in their future lineups.. because prices right now are terrible for lower tier and mid ranged.