The high frame rate 1080p experience is still mainstream in the market. According to the recent Steam hardware report, the adoption rate of the GeForce GTX 1060, which was launched by Green Factory many years ago, is still extremely high. However, affected by the cryptocurrency mining boom and the shortage of chip supply, consumers have not been able to buy affordable new cards for a long time.
The good news is that AMD will soon bring the Red Team fans the cost-effective Radeon RX 6600 XT on August 11th. At the same time, the high price of Nvidia’s RTX 30 series graphics cards is also constantly loosening. AMD officially announced that ASUS, MSI and other manufacturers will launch new Radeon RX 6600 XT products, and the starting price is as low as US$379. At the same time, brand-name device manufacturers will also ship soon.
In the early days, governments in many places launched vigorous rectification actions against chaos such as cryptocurrency mining, and the signs of graphics card mining have also been effectively suppressed. However, if you want to wait until the supply chain resumes the venue, it is estimated that it will continue until the end of 2021 at least.
Given the contradiction between the limited supply and high demand, the price of graphics cards is expected to remain high in the next few months. However, the situation of multiple times the official guide price should not happen again. Judging from the information published so far, the graphics card manufacturer should provide the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card with a dual-fan entry version and a three-fan high-end version.
As a replacement for the Green Factory GeForce RTX 1060, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a rated power consumption of only 160W, which means that the 500W power supply of the whole machine is also quite abundant. And even if it is put in a PCIe x8 slot, it will not cause a performance bottleneck. According to the data shared by AMD, the performance of the RX 6600 XT is between RTX 3060/3060 Ti, so the price of $379 is also quite scientific.
In terms of functions, Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards support Radeon Boost, which can selectively render scene elements at lower resolutions to obtain higher frame rates. Radeon Anti-Lag technology can reduce latency by reducing the burden on the CPU. FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is an open-source alternative to NVIDIA DLSS (compatible with hardware from other manufacturers).
In addition, smart memory access (through Re-BAR technology) allows the CPU to store game-related data in the video memory (rather than the system memory), which means that the GPU does not need to traverse the system bus to retrieve it, thereby further releasing the performance of the system. However, the biggest problem, in reality, is the emergence of AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, can the market really bid farewell to the current “out of stock” dilemma?
