ASRock Radeon RX 6600 XT

ASRock's strategy with the Radeon RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D OC is to build the most capable cooler for AMD's nascent GPU. The company succeeds in this aim as the card is eerily quiet, very cool, and exhibits excellent fan control whilst keeping coil while to a minimum. A single 8-pin connector is a sage move, and whilst we're not enamoured by the RGB, ASRock does it in muted tones. There is nothing much wrong with the Phantom Gaming D OC card itself - ASRock does a good job - but the £470 street price sticks in one's craw, and there's not much ASRock can do about it. If you have your heart set on the Radeon RX 6600 XT, however, and have the financial clout to procure one without buyer's remorse, ASRock's model is a solid choice.

The ASRock RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D 8GB OC edition is a gem, a beauty in Full HD performance cooling and acoustic performance ... now if it was priced in the sub 300 SUD, it would already have been on the expensive side. However, AMD completely overpriced this product series making the conclusion overall negative, and ASRock has nothing to do with that as they offer a truly lovely product. The base design of the RX 6600 XT is sound; AMD has made decisions in the memory subsystem that have limited memory bandwidth; by including 32MB of L3 cache, they have bypassed the majority of that challenge, and the card performs flawlessly up to 1920x1080; however, L3 cache will always be a bypass, a shortcut solution to a problem that may recur in the future. Because of the extremely limited memory bus, performance will suffer as soon as the cache fails to respond. The performance of AMD's raytracing technology is not on par with its competitor, but it is still usable for "fooling around." We don't believe FSR will be sufficient for most AAA games to make a significant enough difference in this area, but it is a fun option to have and experiment with. If the price weren't so exorbitant, it would still be an enticing and beautiful product in the 1920x1080 resolution; nevertheless, the price is rather excessive. At the absolute least, the product would have had to be priced below the $300 USD level to qualify for consideration. I understand that you can disagree and debate with me. Occasionally, the card is as fast as or slightly faster than an RTX 3060 or Ti; as a result, this product will frequently compete with the $399 3060 Ti. For games that support DLSS, however, Geforce is the clear winner in every situation. To summarize, the Radeon RX 6600 XT series continues to be a fantastic gaming card series that is entirely focused on rasterized shading; at Full HD and even WQHD resolutions, the 32MB L3 cache works its magic. You may experiment a little bit with raytracing to see what happens. The asking price, though, continues to be a major concern. ASRock has such a nice offering with the Radeon RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D 8GB OC, you'll get a device that is incredibly silent, very cool, and performing well.

The Radeon RX 6600 XT is an excellent choice for Full HD gaming at the highest settings, possibly with refresh rates exceeding 60 Hz. The card will also handle nearly all titles at 1440p with 60 FPS. Raytracing performance is challenging, though. While the card has hardware-acceleration for raytracing, the performance hit is just too big to make this a viable card for 1080p raytracing, as you'll drop well below 60 FPS in most titles. NVIDIA definitely has the upper hand here. The RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti are roughly twice as fast in raytracing due to additional hardware units. Even last generation's Turing RTX 2080, which offers similar non-RT FPS, runs faster here. Still, this is definitely not a dealbreaker. AMD has recently released their FSR upscaling technology, which will cushion the performance hit from raytracing, and I'm not even sure if you absolutely must enable raytracing at this time to fully enjoy games—games are still developed for RT off; RT on is added at a later stage.