From $299: possible prices for AMD Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT graphics cards became available

AMD Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT graphics cards, which were announced in the coming days, will have suggested retail prices of $299 and $349 respectively. This was reported by Neowin citing a source close to AMD.

The authors of the publication emphasize that these prices are not final yet, and taking into account the deficit and other factors AMD and NVIDIA have repeatedly changed prices just before the official announcements. The RX 6600 XT is reported to offer better performance than the GeForce RTX 3060, which is priced at $329, and in ray tracing is slightly inferior to the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti, whose recommended retail price is set at $399. AMD originally planned to price the RX 6600 XT at $369, but later decided to lower it so that buyers would not opt for the RTX 3060, which has 12GB of memory versus the RX 6600 XT's 8GB. These recommended prices, emphasizes the publication Neowin, in practice, it is very likely will differ in large part, except in cases where we are talking about the products from partners involved in the announcement of new graphics cards.

As for the specifications, on board RX 6600 XT expected to 32 CU (2048 stream processors) Navi 23, and the amount of memory GDDR6 with 128-bit bus size will be, as already mentioned, 8 GB. A model without the prefix XT will get the same memory, but only with 1792 stream processors. Announcement of AMD Radeon RX 6600 series graphics cards is expected on July 30, and senior version can go on sale on August 11.

From $299: possible prices for AMD Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT graphics cards became available

AMD Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT graphics cards, which were announced in the coming days, will have suggested retail prices of $299 and $349 respectively. This was reported by Neowin citing a source close to AMD.

The authors of the publication emphasize that these prices are not final yet, and taking into account the deficit and other factors AMD and NVIDIA have repeatedly changed prices just before the official announcements. The RX 6600 XT is reported to offer better performance than the GeForce RTX 3060, which is priced at $329, and in ray tracing is slightly inferior to the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti, whose recommended retail price is set at $399. AMD originally planned to price the RX 6600 XT at $369, but later decided to lower it so that buyers would not opt for the RTX 3060, which has 12GB of memory versus the RX 6600 XT's 8GB. These recommended prices, emphasizes the publication Neowin, in practice, it is very likely will differ in large part, except in cases where we are talking about the products from partners involved in the announcement of new graphics cards.

As for the specifications, on board RX 6600 XT expected to 32 CU (2048 stream processors) Navi 23, and the amount of memory GDDR6 with 128-bit bus size will be, as already mentioned, 8 GB. A model without the prefix XT will get the same memory, but only with 1792 stream processors. Announcement of AMD Radeon RX 6600 series graphics cards is expected on July 30, and the older version can go on sale on August 11.

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics cards will be introduced next month

AMD has been promising to expand its range of graphics solutions with RDNA 2 architecture for a long time, but difficult market situation and pandemic prevented the company to introduce new models in Radeon RX 6000 family by the middle of the year. Now there is information that Radeon RX 6600 XT will be announced in August, and more affordable Radeon RX 6600 will be released even later.

The usual activity in the field of AMD novelty announcement timing was demonstrated today by VideoCardz site, which accumulated fresh revelations of video-bloggers on the subject of Radeon RX 6600 XT announcement timing. Channel Coreteks, in particular, suggested to expect the debut of this graphics card in August this year. AMD will not release a reference version of novelties & ; this graphic solution will be offered only in versions by partners. More or less accurately we know about 32 MBytes of high-speed Infinity Cache memory and 8 GBytes of GDDR6 memory. We managed to check information about Radeon RX 6600 XT announcement date through our own channels; the debut of this product is indeed scheduled for August, but Radeon RX 6600 will be presented in a more distant indefinite future. It makes no sense to speculate on the recommended retail price of the new RDNA 2 architecture representative, though the source mentioned above mentioned $399 as a reference point. The market prices so far tend to be much higher than the recommended ones, the video card manufacturers simply are not able to influence the situation. The other day the inevitability of the appearance of new models of video cards in the second half of the year, and confirmed the Taiwanese site DigiTimes, referring to the manufacturers of cooling systems.

Updated Tesla Model S's on-board computer gets powerful AMD Navi graphics processor 23

Renowned whistleblower Patrick Schur posted on Twitter a flowchart explaining how the upgraded Model S electric car's onboard computer will be able to run such graphically demanding video games as «The Witcher 3», Cyberpunk 2077 and many others.

According to the diagram, the new Model S electric cars' entertainment system, which is likely to also act as a navigation system, will use the AMD Navi 23 GPU.

The diagram indicates that the graphics subsystem will be equipped with 16Gb (2GB) GDDR6 memory chips from Samsung (K4ZAF325XM). There will be four such memory modules. Thus, the total amount of video memory of the Model S on-board computer will be 8GB.

The chart also reports that the 14 Gb/s video memory will feature 128-bit bus support, for a maximum throughput of 224 Gb/s, similar to what's possible in Xbox Series S consoles. Additionally, Tesla will have two DisplayPort and one HDMI connector for connectivity to in-vehicle monitors, as well as a PCIe Gen4 x8 interface for connectivity to other cards.

According to Tesla itself, the onboard computer of the new Model S will be able to provide up to 10 Tflops of processing power, which is almost equivalent to the performance of a PlayStation 5 game console. To do that, the 32 GPU Navi 23 processing units with 2048 stream processors would have to run at a minimum of 2.44 GHz.