AMD RX 6600 XT Review ft. Gigabyte Gaming OC Pro

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte RX 6600 XT Gaming OC Pro3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Control8. Cyberpunk 20779. Days Gone10. F1 202111. Gears 512. Hitman 313. Horizon Zero Dawn14. Red Dead Redemption 215. Resident Evil Village16. Total War Saga: Troy17. Watch Dogs: Legion18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Ray Tracing - Cyberpunk 207721. Ray Tracing - Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition22. Ray Tracing - Resident Evil: Village23. Smart Access Memory (SAM) Tested24. Clock Speed25. GPU Temperatures26. Acoustics27. Noise-Normalised Temperatures28. Power Draw: 1080p29. Power Draw: 1440p30. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)31. Performance per Watt: 1080p32. Performance per Watt: 1440p33. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)34. Total System Power Draw35. Overclocking36. Closing Thoughts37. View All Pages

Resident Evil Village is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom. The sequel to Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017), players control Ethan Winters, who is searching for his kidnapped daughter; after a fateful encounter with Chris Redfield, he finds himself in a village filled with mutant creatures. The game was announced at the PlayStation 5 reveal event in June 2020 and was released on May 7, 2021, for Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and Stadia. (Wikipedia.)

Engine: RE Engine. We test using the Max preset, with V-Sync and CAS disabled, DX12 API.

Resident Evil Village is the last AMD-sponsored title that we test, and the RX 6600 XT does produce the goods here. It averages over 160FPS at 1080p, giving it an impressive 23% lead over the RTX 3060. We can even see the 6600 XT's biggest win over the RX 5700 XT here, to the tune of 10%, with this new game best placed to get the most out of RDNA 2 compared to the original RDNA architecture.

At 1440p, that picture remains pretty consistent. We're still getting frame rates over 100FPS, which isn't bad at all for a card focused on 1080p gaming, while the 6600 XT is still 20% faster than the RTX 3060. It is still 10% slower than the RTX 3060 Ti, but that's one of the better results for the 6600 XT at this resolution.

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