ASUS RX 6600 XT Strix OC Review

ASUS RX 6600 XT Strix OC Review

Introduction

Last week we gave you a sneak preview of the newest additions to the AMD Radeon range, based upon their RDNA 2 architecture. The day has finally come when we can reveal how it performs in our suite of gaming benchmarks.

If you paid attention only to forums, Reddit or influencers it would be easy to come away with the belief that the entire world runs the very latest hardware on displays that wouldn’t look out of place in your local Odeon. Thanks to the Steam hardware survey we know that 1080P is still, by some margin, the dominant gaming resolution and that way more people run cards which are designed to push that resolution at an affordable price, than the flagship models.

With any new hardware release there is always a lot of pomp and ceremony about the new range-topping models, because they are the ones we all dream of, but beneath those shouty cards there are the ones that sell in numbers you can barely imagine. The meat and potatoes of the range if you will. When it comes to selling cards by the million the ASUS Strix range has that locked down, thanks to the fame of the ROG name and particularly the Strix sub brand. Combining the ROG Strix name with a hugely popular price point should ensure that the Radeon RX 6600 XT flies off the shelves.

Spoiler alert, the RX 6600 XT is the perfect choice if you want a 1080P gaming card at a price that doesn’t require you to sell a kidney or live in a cardboard box.

Technical Specifications

AMD handily provided us with a comparison between the new RX 6600 XT and the card in their range that it replaces, the RX 5600 XT. It’s fair to say the new affordable-gaming focussed card has seen a significant upgrade in hardware. We can’t wait to see how it performs in our gaming tests.

The ASUS Strix itself has a couple of additional elements to note. Outputs are 1 HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 1.4a connectors. The GPU itself has seen a little boost on this OC edition, now running 2607 MHz boost and a more substantial 2448 MHz game clock. We know that there will be more to come when actually running it, but those are the ‘on paper’ figures.

  Radeon RX 6600 XT Radeon RX 5600 XT
Architecture RDNA 2 RDNA
Manufacturing Process 7nm 7nm
Transistor Count 11.1 billion 10.3 billion
Die Size 237 mm2 251 mm2
Compute Units 32 36
Ray Accelerators 32 0
Stream Processors 2048 2304
GPU Gaming Clock 2359 MHz 1375 MHz
Boost Clock 2589 MHz 1560 MHz
Single Precision Peak Performance 10.6 TFLOPS 7.19 TFLOPS
Half Precision Peak Performance 21.21 TFLOPS 14.4 TFLOPS
Peak Texture Fill-rate 331.4 GT/s 224.6 GT/s
ROPs 64 64
Peak Pixel Fill-rate 165.7 GP/s 99.8 GPs
Infinity Cache 32 MB 0
Memory 8GB GDDR6 6GB GDDR6
Memory Bandwidth 256 GB/s 288 GB/s
Memory Interface 128-bit 192-bit
TDP 160W 150W