I cancelled my order for an MSI Gaming X from a rival shop and bought the £375 Sapphire Pulse from OCUK. That price in todays market was too good to ignore. And the TechPowerUo review of the cooler on this card shows its extremely quiet. Good job Sapphire.
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RX 6600XT 1080p gaming for $379 on Aug 11
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Sapphire and Powercolor tend to be amongst the oldest and closest AMD AIB partners.
I read that the main reason for 8 originates from laptops, where a wider bus isnt needed. The extremely good efficiency of the cards in general also hints at this design origin.
Yep for some reason though I see Sapphire as the more premium of the two brands, despite similar prices for their entry SKUs (since the Pulse line-up).
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Tempted to get the Sapphire 6600XT Pulse although my experience with the Sapphire 560 Pulse makes me a bit warry (lack of zero RPM fan mode, driver crashes whilst on desktop or browsing the web and the model I got had fewer shader cores then the original spec). Has anyone here had experience with more recent Sapphire offerings in particular with Pulse models?
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Vega56 Pulse. Great card. Quiet too. When I got my 3090 I sold it to my mate for half price of the going rate on ebay. He's still using it in his new system.
It's one of the best AIB models, zero fan stop of course and one of the quietest cards around, with decent OC headroom: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-6600-xt-pulse-oc/
Was that a non-standard design? Two fans? The regular RX 560 Pulse does have a zero RPM fan mode and I've had no problem with the very similar 550 (if drivers prior to 20. are used).
Are you talking about the 5600 XT Pulse or the RX 560 Pulse? Either way it shouldn't really matter, as both of those cards do have idle fan stop. Maybe you had a program like Afterburner interfering with it or something. I assume you probably mean the RX 560 by the missing shaders comment, but that was an AMD thing in general rather than anything Sapphire did. They made the choice to sell two different versions of the RX 560 with different shader counts whilst naming them identically. As for crashes, that could be anything from a faulty card to a problem with your setup. Nothing to do with the model of card though.
The Pulse lineup in general have been fantastic cards. I had the Vega 56 Pulse and it was great, and from all the reviews so far it seems like the Pulse is one of the best 6600 XTs. Haven't found any reviews of the Nitro, but it seems to be pretty much exactly the same card with some RGB nonsense for your extra £25.
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It's to reduce board complexity and boost margin. Not a problem on PCIe 4 but unless you have a B550 or X570 or Intel equivalent, all recent and hardly budget basement...
Could you give us more details about this please, I had a look via a VPN, and couldn't see a way to pre-order items.
Yesterday a few minutes before I posted I went to AMD direct buy site and I was redirected to a queue page, after about 20 minutes it stated that they exhausted the GPUs.
I will try again today at the same time, (3pm in UK), no idea if they were testing something or if by chance I got a rare AMD shop drop.
@Zarax good luck, pre-orders at or near RRP would be brilliant.
AMD has already ruled out a reference model for the RX 6600 XT though, anyone would think they don't like offering reference models, especially since they account for such a small percentage of sold AMD GPUs
I like how they try to give the impression that the decision to offer reference models or not, is based on customer demand... I mean, they could really give Nvidia a kick up the backside if 50% of the cards sold were reference models sold at RRP price - But, they don't need too, both companies are sitting pretty.
AMD has already ruled out a reference model for the RX 6600 XT though, anyone would think they don't like offering reference models, especially since they account for such a small percentage of sold AMD GPUs
I like how they try to give the impression that the decision to offer reference models or not, is based on customer demand... I mean, they could really give Nvidia a kick up the backside if 50% of the cards sold were reference models sold at RRP price - But, they don't need too, both companies are sitting pretty.
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They`ve been doing it for a while, you can join the queue if products are in the shop, if every product is potentially allocated then the queue closes, but its not a smart system and its based on xxx amount of gpus and cpus.
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AMD has already ruled out a reference model for the RX 6600 XT though, anyone would think they don't like offering reference models, especially since they account for such a small percentage of sold AMD GPUs
They're *making* reference models forAiB's to sell but won't sell them on their own store. Greed.
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Except they are not , thats not how *reference* models work. Sapphire will take the reference design and use it, but they make the card themselves
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Thanks for your reply. Yeah my card is a RX 560 I bought it 2nd hand of the bay to tide me over during these crazy times but the card is unstable when doing simple desktop tings like web browsing it was 100% rock solid in games but now I've noticed it's started to artifact in games like Total War Atilla so I'm now looking for a replacement.
I was looking at the Nitro+ as well but over then slightly higher boost clocks and RGB on the cooler I couldn't see much difference but without a proper review it's hard to say if the extra £25 is worth it or not (the marketing materials suggest it may be slightly quieter then the Pulse).
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The one I got was this model with a single fan.
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The reference model RX6600XT would be the one to get,as its quite compact and its not overvolted. Hence it has very decent performance/watt. I suspect you will see them in OEM systems.