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

Real-time ray tracing is incredibly demanding. The latest graphics cards have dedicated hardware that’s optimized for ray-tracing. The 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test measures the performance of this dedicated hardware. Instead of using traditional rendering techniques, the whole scene is ray-traced and drawn in one pass. The result of the test depends entirely on ray-tracing performance. (UL).

We know AMD isn't as strong when it comes to ray tracing, and using the 3DMark DXR Featuretest – which is entirely ray traced – we can see the RX 6600 XT is slower than even the RTX 2060 which launched over 2 years ago. Put it another way – the RTX 3060 Ti isn't far off being three times as fast.

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