News AMD's RX 6600 is the most popular Red Team GPU among Steam gamers, by a whisker — but no Radeon card makes the top 30 list

[Admin]

The RX 6600 overtakes the RX 580 as the most popular gaming GPU on Steam but fails to mark Radeon's entry into the top 30 list.

AMD's RX 6600 is the most popular Red Team GPU among Steam gamers, by a whisker — but no Radeon card makes the top 30 list : Read more

 

[Neilbob]

Not quite on topic, but this little bit of the current survey grabbed my attention:

PROCESSOR VENDOR (LINUX)

AuthenticAMD --- 74.56%
GenuineIntel --- 29.74%

PROCESSOR VENDOR (OSX)

VirtualApple --- 80.43%
GenuineIntel --- 24.85%

Hrm, something here ain't quite right. What could it possibly be, I wonder? I know it can't be an issue with the survey because it is utterly perfect and above any kind of reproach.

 

[Saltyshackles]

I use my RX6600 with a Ryzen 5 7600 on Linux Mint. It's run flawlessly all games on Steam via Proton. I'll be checking to see what the RX 8600 brings to the table next year. 😎

 

[valthuer]

Not quite on topic, but this little bit of the current survey grabbed my attention:

PROCESSOR VENDOR (LINUX)

AuthenticAMD --- 74.56%
GenuineIntel --- 29.74%

PROCESSOR VENDOR (OSX)

VirtualApple --- 80.43%
GenuineIntel --- 24.85%

Hrm, something here ain't quite right. What could it possibly be, I wonder? I know it can't be an issue with the survey because it is utterly perfect and above any kind of reproach.

They are not able to publish basic numbers and add them up to 100%... Elementary school math... Valve is too lazy to fix this issue.

 

[usertests]

Sad, very sad. At least a couple of the AMD iGPUs (one of them probably being the Steam Deck at around 2%?) are doing well.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Thus, it is clear that AMD needs to revise its pricing strategy

While completely true, they would need a significant reduction in cost and increase in performance to sway most people, the kind of thing AMD hasn't pulled since the HD 4870 and HD 5870 all those years ago. Also they'd have to have the same kind of track record with their software like nVidia to make people who were bitten by it trust them again.

And then, it wouldn't work. Consumers would win because there would be lower prices as nVidia lowers their cards to match.

The only way it WOULD work is if they could get ahead on the performance game, the way they were able to against Intel when they started floundering with process nodes, and sadly that's not going to happen either.

 

[Amdlova]

I'am very happy with the 4060 First all the hate, Now pure love.
Don't heat, don't draw and don't make noise....

I want to try the Rx 7600 but with intel drivers amd becomes a nightmare

 

[pug_s]

I personally own a rx 6600 but it seems that there's not a lot love out there for it. Spend a few bucks more and you can get a 12gb 3060 which is faster. I understand AMD wants to get out from its high end graphics card business, but AMD should lower its prices and have more engineers make better drivers which should increase market share for its low to mid end graphics cards.

 

[Shimaaji]

I honestly hope that AMD will be more able to compete with mid range GPUs. Nvidia mustn't get all the cake or prices will escalate even further.

That being said: Presently AMD IMHO doesn't have a convincing package.

Highest end gaming? You want that better Ray tracing performance.
Mid range? Almost all new AAA games support both types of frame generation, but afaik Nvidia's looks much better. Even more pressing: When you're on a budget already and don't have United States power prices, but live in the EU you really can't justify AMD's power inefficiency.

Really hoping for the next generation.

 

[TheHerald]

I honestly hope that AMD will be more able to compete with mid range GPUs. Nvidia mustn't get all the cake or prices will escalate even further.

That being said: Presently AMD IMHO doesn't have a convincing package.

Highest end gaming? You want that better Ray tracing performance.
Mid range? Almost all new AAA games support both types of frame generation, but afaik Nvidia's looks much better. Even more pressing: When you're on a budget already and don't have United States power prices, but live in the EU you really can't justify AMD's power inefficiency.

Really hoping for the next generation.

AMDa FG is actually good / maybe even better than nvidias. Depends on the implementation. It's dlss and rt performance that nvidia is leading over amd.

 

[-Fran-]

A very cost effective and accessible card for most people is the best selling of a line up across generations. Shocking, I tell you. Shocking.

As I've always said: the ~$300 price range is the best slot to put your best performers at. AMD should stop faffing around and make a proper successor to the 6700XT and price it under $350.

Regards.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

AMDa FG is actually good / maybe even better than nvidias. Depends on the implementation. It's dlss and rt performance that nvidia is leading over amd.

For sub $400 cards, RT doesn't matter as performance is bad for both brands.

 

[TheHerald]

For sub $400 cards, RT doesn't matter as performance is bad for both brands.

I probably am in agreement. Even for sub 600 is a hard sell, but that's mostly because cards at that price range are kinda bad

 

[P.Amini]

A very cost effective and accessible card for most people is the best selling of a line up across generations. Shocking, I tell you. Shocking.

As I've always said: the ~$300 price range is the best slot to put your best performers at. AMD should stop faffing around and make a proper successor to the 6700XT and price it under $350.

Regards.

Not long ago you could buy high end graphics cards for 300-500 bucks...

 

[P.Amini]

For sub $400 cards, RT doesn't matter as performance is bad for both brands.

I hate to say but DLSS is a game changer there.

 

[King_V]

I hate to say but DLSS is a game changer there.

Not everyone necessarily wants to use DLSS, or deal with the sluggishness/slow-refresh-rate-feel that DLSS gives. Game changer isn't the term I'd use. Of course, I'm not really all that sold on any frame gen technology, so there's that.

 

[P.Amini]

Not everyone necessarily wants to use DLSS, or deal with the sluggishness/slow-refresh-rate-feel that DLSS gives. Game changer isn't the term I'd use. Of course, I'm not really all that sold on any frame gen technology, so there's that.

I'm talking about upscaling and other parts of DLSS not frame generation which causes lag and is a big NO NO for me.

 

[saint_craig]

I prefer Nvidia because they support OpenCL as well as CUDA. whereas Team RED (Unless things have changed) only support OpenCL. Having both standards available adds additional software choice.

 

[-Fran-]

I prefer Nvidia because they support OpenCL as well as CUDA. whereas Team RED (Unless things have changed) only support OpenCL. Having both standards available adds additional software choice.

Calling CUDA a "standard" sounds funny to me. That's like a dictator forcing its population to eat pineapple on pizza calls "pinapple on pizza" the "standard" meal of the country.

AMD doesn't support CUDA because nVidia doesn't want them to and AMD probably has better things to spend money on than paying what I'd imagine is a ludicruous royalty fee to support it.

Regards 😛