Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6600, 8GB GDDR6, HDMI, DP, lite retail

Sparsame 1080p GPU! Knapp zwei Monate nach dem Release der AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT schickt nun mit der AMD Radeon RX 6600 das nächste Modell ins Rennen. Die auf Energieeffizienz getrimmte Grafikkarte konnte im Test überzeugen. Wo jedoch die Schwachpunkte der neuen Mid-Range-Grafikkarte liegen, verraten wie Ihnen in diesem Review.

The Radeon RX 6600 comes in at an interesting time for the industry. Set against severe stock shortages, the baby of the RX 6000 bunch is designed as a high-quality 1080p solution for DIY PC builders.

AMD's entry-level to mainstream offering is totally sound. However, the pricing is disturbing. As a product in its intended range, it's great though. AMD made memory subsystem design decisions that limited memory bandwidth; by including 32MB of L3 cache, AMD has circumvented the majority of this limitation, as such these cards perform flawlessly up to 1920x1080; however, L3 cache will always be a bypass, a short-cut to a problem that may recur in the future. Due to the severely constrained memory bus, performance will degrade immediately upon the cache running dry. While AMD's raytracing technology may not perform as well as its competitors, it is still useful for "fooling around a little." We feel that FSR will be insufficient for the majority of AAA titles to make a noticeable difference in this area, given 1080P is the card's gaming domain, and FSR performs better at higher resolutions. It must be said, though, that this is a fun choice to have and explore with. Performance-wise at Full HD, the card delivers without a doubt, making this a great gaming card series focused mostly on rasterized Full HD rendering; at and even beyond Full HD up to WQHD, the 32MB L3 cache works its witchery. You can play about with raytracing a little bit to see what occurs, but the render engine will quickly run out of stamina. None of that is even slightly important as the main factor remains pricing. The high asking price remains a significant problem, especially when product positioning and relative performance are considered. Other than that we'd like to add that Sapphire performed an amazing job with the design of the Pulse and handled everything correctly; you will obtain a graphics card that is silent, fashionable, and hip-looking. It did run slightly hotter than intended, however. While we cannot recommend the Radeon RX 6600 merely on the basis of its price, we can approve the device in its intended configuration. To be honest, we wished the performance of the 6600 product line would have been closer to that of the GeForce RTX 3060; that remains to be a legitimate point of criticism. But as an entry-level to mainstream card we also admit that it's not a bad one aside from the price level.