My 4gb 580 is struggling these days and so looking for a new GPU for 1440p gaming. I'm happy not having everything at ultra settings. Ideally would like a 3050 if I could get it for MSRP but that seems unlikely so considering either a 6600xt around £450 or 3060 around £475. AMD seems to be the fastest and cheapest but most reviews seem to be a bit negative about it compared to the Nvida option.
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With todays prices what makes most sense 6600xt or 3060 (non ti)
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Funny you should ask, one of the best benchers on YT posted this today:
Personally I'd go for the 3060, because you have a lot more flexibility with RT & DLSS, and more vram on top of it. The 6600 XT is no slouch, but the price difference these days is minimal, and where AMD wins is in titles where you have a lot of fps already, while a 3060 has the edge in the exact cases where you are lacking performance or need an extra push to hit 60 fps (Cyberpunk +RT etc).
Personally I'd go for the 3060, because you have a lot more flexibility with RT & DLSS, and more vram on top of it. The 6600 XT is no slouch, but the price difference these days is minimal, and where AMD wins is in titles where you have a lot of fps already, while a 3060 has the edge in the exact cases where you are lacking performance or need an extra push to hit 60 fps (Cyberpunk +RT etc).
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With those 2 being a v similar price I'd have to go 6600XT personally, looks a solid card 
Hi there
Not that it is a 6600 XT, but this 6600 will go on weekend special at £349 tomorrow until 9am Monday:
Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £349.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-39r-sp.html
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Not that it is a 6600 XT, but this 6600 will go on weekend special at £349 tomorrow until 9am Monday:
Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Pulse Gaming 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £349.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-39r-sp.html
11310-01-20G, Core Clock: 2044MHz, Boost Clock: 2491MHz, Memory: 8192MB 16000MHz GDDR6, Stream Processors: 1792, DirectX 12 Support, Vulkan Support, RDNA, Freesync 2 HDR support, 3yr Warr
Only £349.99 inc VAT - Starts 9am tomorrow - ends 9am Monday or if the 500 units sell out!
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Well I think it comes down to resolution.
6600 will smash 1080P and do some 1440P
6600 XT is better and very capable at 1440P.
Our 3060 deal at £479 is very capable 1440P card and has DLSS and Ray tracing etc.
Why wouldn't it be? For singular effects (like reflections) it has plenty of power, and for RT-only games it's obviously going to be even better than AMD. Easy to cap 60 fps. F.ex.:
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This should be useful;
AMD RX 6600 vs. RX 6600 XT vs. RTX 3060: Testing Budget GPUs | Digital Trends
AMD RX 6600 vs. RX 6600 XT vs. RTX 3060: Testing Budget GPUs | Digital Trends
I yet to see anyone mention using Sapphire "Trixx" on any sapphire cards to get a bit more performance out their gpus. I've had a number of sapphire cards go through my hands for builds for friends and my kids too, and I've used this sapphire cards all the way due to this feature, yet again, theres no mention of it's usage anywhere that I can see.
Comes in very useful for getting up to 10%-25% application/game dependent, from any sapphire card, just upscaling in a nutshell, but it works and turns a 6500xt from a dog into summat acceptable, even when running pci-e gen 3. can't do anything about running out of Vram though, just have to adjust settings accordingly, but overall, it really helps.
Comes in very useful for getting up to 10%-25% application/game dependent, from any sapphire card, just upscaling in a nutshell, but it works and turns a 6500xt from a dog into summat acceptable, even when running pci-e gen 3. can't do anything about running out of Vram though, just have to adjust settings accordingly, but overall, it really helps.
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It is a shame the intel cards are not out already. Would be another option to see also what prices they are commanding!
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And how many games rely soley on this "modern tech" (RT has been around for decades!)? Other than the sponsored version of Metro, which games can someone not play using an RDNA2 card? Do you keep Jensons coat warm for him when he's not wearing it?
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RT - It's been a brilliant marketing gimmick to justify insane prices - that's about it.
There's no way RT should enter into the debate about a card around this tier in the first place.
That's just GPU 101.
660XT is the best card in this use case, no doubt.
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It's 2022 guys, the 4th year of hardware accelerated RT and AI upscaling. Time to catch up.
Every game with RT other than AMD sponsored titles, where they implement as little RT as possible. NVIDIA cards have more RT processing on-board so obviously they're better for the job.
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Yes, it's year 4 and still a gimmick.
Now I remember where I saw that username before: trolling any GPU thread with a total Nvidia bias!
Irony being of course, what is going to be basic spec for all the big games for the next few years?
PS5 and Xbox Series S/X which both use some manner of RDNA 2.
Yes, it would have been nice if Sony and Microsoft had been willing to spend more on RT hardware (I would imagine an extra 30mm² or so for dedicated RT fixed function would have done it), but they weren't.
So which studio is going to design something totally for the way Nvidia does RT now unless Nvidia sponsor it? 90%+ of games will be designed for the current consoles with PC as an after though.
I'd love to hear how it's a gimmick, pretty sure the likes of digital foundry would call it out for what it is, if so.