GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 Eagle 8G Graphics Card now $179 after Promo code

[trs96]

See post #40 of this thread by Craighazan for the latest prices from Newegg.

Link to post #40

For those that require a shorter, two fan card, the Sapphire Pulse RX6600 is the best option and sells for $200 after promo. The Sapphire is only 9.5 inches long. Gigabyte Eagle is 11.1 inches. Here is the direct link to that:

SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 6600 Video Card 11310-01-20G - Newegg.com

Buy SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 6600 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ATX Video Card 11310-01-20G with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

www.newegg.com

Original post:
Ten months ago in November 2021, these were selling for $620 ! Now they are below MSRP by 80 dollars.

2044 MHz is the Core clock and 2491 the boost clock. Compare that to the RTX 3060. 8GB of Vram is plenty for 1080p gaming so that is more than adequate.

November 2021 GPU Prices

Remember that you must be on at least Monterey or Ventura to use this card in your hackintosh. This card is over 11 inches long so make sure your case has enough room. There's nothing fancy about this, no RGB or bling, just a good basic card for getting work done or some gaming.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09J2NCD2L/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

 

[trs96]

If you want to game at 1080p in Windows, this is the card to get. Dual boot with Ventura to have the best of both OS.

Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 Eagle Review

The Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 Eagle is the only triple-fan design variant for the RX 6600. In our review, we're taking a close look at the cooling capabilities of this dual-slot card and also run it through our 25-game strong test suite, plus 9 ray tracing titles.

www.techpowerup.com

The RX 6600 is based on the same RDNA2 graphics architecture as the rest of AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series, which has propelled the company back to competitiveness across all consumer graphics market segments, including the enthusiast segment. This is AMD's first architecture that features real-time ray tracing hardware acceleration. Fixed function hardware called Ray Accelerators perform the most compute-intensive part of the ray tracing pipeline (ray intersection calculations), while much of the other ray tracing pipeline is handled by compute shaders. A consequence of this is that AMD has had to significantly increase throughput of its SIMD machinery through not just IPC increases of the RDNA2 compute unit, but also significant increases in engine clocks. This is what makes the RX 6600 an interesting mid-range card for the 1080p crowd.

The Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle features a large WindForce 3X cooling solution with an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that's fed heat by three copper heat-pipes that make direct contact with the GPU at the base. This heatsink is ventilated by three 100 mm fans. The card is longer than the PCB itself, which means much of the airflow from the third fan goes right through the heatsink and out the backplate from a large cutout.

 

[trs96]

The Gigabyte RTX 3060 is a very nice card. Two problems with it. Cost is $130 more than the 6600 and it has no support in macOS. Two things that are important for any hackintosh build. So the choice should be easy if you want to game in Windows and dual boot into macOS Monterey or newer. Put the money saved into more ram or a fast NVMe SSD to make your build more responsive, with super quick boot times and program loading.

New RTX 3070s still sell for $550 or more new, so that puts them over what the average hackintosh owner can budget into their build for a graphics card for gaming. Again, no macOS support is a deal breaker anyway.

 

[craighazan]

The Sapphire Pulse RX6600 is close to matching the Gigabyte card in price. Now $259 on Amazon.

 

[NorthAmTransAm]

Damn you for showing me that.

 

[craighazan]

@Celeri is this the same card that's in your golden build?.

 

[Celeri]

@Celeri is this the same card that's in your golden build?.

Exactly the same!

 

[trs96]

The price for the Gigabyte RX 6600 has jumped back up by $86 dollars. So the Sapphire is now the best deal.

 

[NZRichard]

The price for the Gigabyte RX 6600

Amazon has price back down again - great details above in post #1 -anything else to know about this card?

 

[trs96]

anything else to know about this card?

I don't own one yet. Think that @Stork does so you could ask him about his personal experience with it. His version is the XT so slightly more performance.