AMD announces Radeon RX 6600 XT at 379USD

The first desktop gaming Navi 23 GPU is here.

Today at Chinajoy AMD unveiled its Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card designed for 1080p gaming. This model is set to compete with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB which debuted back in February. According to AMD’s own performance claims, their card is faster than the NVIDIA GA106 model in 10 titles (1080p max settings with ReBar enabled on each card).

AMD also provided a performance comparison to the last-gen RX 5600 XT, which was using a cut-down Navi 10 GPU. According to AMD, the new RX 6600 XT is from 1.4x to 1.7x faster than the RDNA1 model.

RX 6600 XT is equipped with Navi 23 XT GPU featuring 2048 Stream Processors, a full configuration for this GPU. The official game clock is 2359 MHz, boost clock is 2589 MHz and 160W TBP powered through a single 8-pin power connector.

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT launches exclusively through AIBs with their custom designs, there will be no reference design available. AMD promised that RX 6600 XT will be available on August 11th. In terms of pricing, the RX 6600 XT will cost 379 USD, exactly 100 USD more than RX 5600 XT.

AIBs have prepared various designs including Mini-ITX models, dual-fan cooling solutions, and even triple-fan models for the best performance and thermals.

Here’s how RX 6600 XT stacks up compared to the best models from each Radeon RX 6000 sub-series.

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series
VideoCardz	RX 6900 XT LC	RX 6800 XT	RX 6700 XT	RX 6600 XT
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GPU	Navi 21 XTXH	Navi 21 XT	Navi 22 XT	Navi 23 XT
Cores	5120	3840	2560	2048
Infinity Cache	128 MB	128 MB	96 MB	32 MB
Game Clock	2250 MHz	2015 MHz	2424 MHz	2359 MHz
Boost Clock	2435 MHz	2105 MHz	2581 MHz	2589 MHz
Memory Clock	18 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps	16 Gbps
Memory	16 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	128-bit
Bandwidth	576 GB/s	512 GB/s	384 GB/s	256 GB/s
TBP	330W	250W	230W	160W
MSRP	OEM	579 USD	479 USD	379 USD
Launch Date	June 2021	November 2020	March 2021	August 2021