Review: ASRock Radeon RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D 8GB OC

by Tarinder Sandhu on 15 September 2021, 14:01

Tags: AsRock, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Conclusion

...the card is eerily quiet, very cool, and exhibits excellent fan control whilst keeping coil while to a minimum.

ASRock's strategy with the Radeon RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D OC is to build the most capable cooler for AMD's nascent GPU. The company succeeds in this aim as the card is eerily quiet, very cool, and exhibits excellent fan control whilst keeping coil while to a minimum.

A single 8-pin connector is a sage move, and whilst we're not enamoured by the RGB, ASRock does it in muted tones. There is nothing much wrong with the Phantom Gaming D OC card itself - ASRock does a good job - but the £470 street price sticks in one's craw, and there's not much ASRock can do about it.

If you have your heart set on the Radeon RX 6600 XT, however, and have the financial clout to procure one without buyer's remorse, ASRock's model is a solid choice.

The Good
 
The Bad
Excellent thermals and temps
Single power connector
Overclocks well enough
Odds of finding stock are improving
 
Street price is £470
Performance lags at higher res
Raytracing not great



ASRock Radeon RX 6600 XT Phantom Gaming D 8GB OC

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£470 is a bit of a bargain, when you consider the 3060ti cards (Ebuyer uk) are anything from £580 - £770
I wonder alot of these cards shown here that is supposed to be mid and entry range, doing much worse than topend cards 2 generations back, it is not just Red team, but also Green Team fit into that catagorie… please for your tests show more cards from the older age as well, so you can give people a reason to actually buy older cards second hand, and doing something for the enviroment instead.

The topend eg. 10X0 and 9X0 series from Nvidia, is not really out of the competetion whenever it get to it…
Terrible value at £470 - barely quicker than an RX5700XT which could be had for under £400 early last year. Also,looks to be worse than the console GPUs too.

Its also telling that you can get laptops for under £1000 with an RTX3060 and whole desktops with a Ryzen 5 5600X/RTX3060TI for £900~£1000:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-legion-5-ryzen-5-5600h-6-core12-thread-8gb-ram-512gb-ssd-rtx-3060-156-120hz-freesync-win10-home-gaming-laptop-3791303
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I suspect once the RX6600XT starts hitting laptops and prebuilt systems,getting an RX6600XT in a laptop or prebuilt desktop would make more sense. AFAIK,in laptops an RX6600M is generally quicker than an RTX3060 mobile variant.Its quite clear,it makes little sense to do a DIY gaming build from scratch and its better value just get a prebuilt system.