The Radeon RX 6600 XT launch day is here, and availability is both great and terrible depending on the retailer. Online retailers did not have any RX 6600 XT graphics cards for sale at 9AM EST (the cards release time). However, some of Micro Center's brick-and-mortar stores have over 100 RX 6600 XT's available for purchase, the most amount of RDNA2 cards ever stocked up at a single Micro Center location according to employees.

The Radeon RX 6600 XT is AMD's latest mid-range graphics card packing 2048 cores, 32 CUs, and 8GB of GDDR6 memory at an MSRP of $380. This card is AMD's cheapest RDNA 2 graphics card to date and offers competitive performance similar to that of the RTX 3060 12GB, one of the best graphics cards , and RTX 3060 Ti.

The results are quite spectacular for Micro Center stores. Rich Carroll, Merchandise manager for Micro Center told us that there are more than 2,000 RX 6600 XT graphics cards available across all of its 25 locations nationwide and that, as of 3:40 PM ET, every store still had stock.

We confirmed this by going to a MicroCenter in Denver Colorado and the store alone had over 100 RX 6600 XT's on store shelves waiting to be purchased. The models on the shelf included:

But, cards are moving off store shelves relatively quickly. The ROG Strix variant and PowerColor Red Devil were already sold out when we got to the store, and the Sapphire Nitro+ model only had one remaining in stock. So if you have a local Micro Center near you, it's best to start driving as soon as possible.

It's great to see Micro Center getting a full load of RX 6600 XT's on launch day, giving local customers a chance to finally get a graphics card at MSRP. However, the same cannot be said of online retailers.

Checking out the RX 6600 XT on Amazon, Memory Express and other vendors results in listings either showcasing unavailability with no pricing, or no cards listings at all. Newegg had 15 cards listed this afternoon, but all were shown as out of stock.

This leaves the pre-built market (see best gaming PCs ) as the only solution to purchase an RX 6600 XT with several vendors already marketing RX 6600 XT machines including CyberPowerPC , CLX Gaming , and AVA Direct.

It appears scalpers have not had any luck acquiring the new graphics cards either with eBay.com showing just one listing for a scalped RX 6600 XT at $699.99, with no other listings so far.

However, if you are a European resident, you might have better luck purchasing an RX 6600 XT. ebuyer.com has a couple of Sapphire and MSI RX 6600 XT's in stock right now with prices ranging from 369.99 Euros to 419.99 Euros. Other European retailers also have stock.

Unfortunately for American buyers, AMD or its AIB partners really messed up shipping the cards to online retailers. We're not sure if AMD's strategy was to only ship cards in bulk to Micro Center or not. But that theory would certainly explain why Micro Center has so many 6600 XT's. Either way, let's hope AMD can continue making enough RX 6600 XT's to reduce Nvidia's domination in the mid-range market.