AMD’s more affordable RX 6600 GPU could turn up much later than expected

Vanilla RX 6600 may not be here until October

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AMD’s supposedly imminentRX 6600 graphics card – the vanilla non-XT version – won’t be arriving as soon as expected, at least not going by fresh info plucked from the GPU grapevine.

Previous spinning from the rumor mill has indicated that both the RX 6600 and 6600 XT GPUs could be out next month, but now leaker Coreteks reckons that the base RX 6600 won’t be here until at least September, or it might not even pitch up until October.

Quick FIY➡️ 6600 Non-XT September/October➡️ Navi24 end of this yearJuly 20, 2021

Coreteks has previously saidthat the RX 6600 XT will come out in August, and with no mention of the XT card here, presumably that piece of speculation still holds, and it’s just the RX 6600 that we might be waiting another few months for. We don’t know that for sure, though – and indeed remember we can’t be certain about any of this, as ultimately it’s all rumors and educated guesswork.

Spec talk

The vanilla RX 6600 will purportedly feature 1,792 stream processors, compared to the 6600 XT which isrumored to run with 2,048 stream processors– and potentially could outdoNvidia’sRTX 3060 Tiaccording to thelatest benchmark leak we’ve seen. That fresh leak is certainly a surprise given that we were thinking AMD was targeting the RTX 3060, but it could help to explain some of thechatter about heftier price tags for the 6600 XT. Time will tell, but the RX 6600 will offer a more affordable option, of course.

Beyond that, Coreteks also mentions that Navi 24 will arrive before the end of 2021, the GPU to power the budget cards which will sit below the 6600 series. So by the close of this year, there should be a lot more options on the table in terms of graphics cards which are more wallet-friendly fromAMD.

Hopefully we’ll see some decent stock levels of these GPUs, too, which will obviously be a crucial part of the puzzle.

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Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).

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