Question Rx 6600 Underperforming

[DrearSquirrel]

I bought this Hellhound Rx 6600 brand new to replace my old GTX 1060 when they were first coming out and I've had nothing but trouble trying to get performance. I get nowhere near the performance as the benchmark videos and have tried to troubleshoot it countless times. I struggle to run modern games at 1080p. I scored a 4568 on the UNIGINE Superposition Benchmark at 1080p EXTREME settings. I don't know why it's taken me this long to ask a forum but if this doesn't work out I'm going back to team green.

Specs:
Rx 6600
Ryzen 2700x
32gb Dddr4 3200 Mhz
750W PSU
1 TB SSD

 

[kerberos_20]

I scored a 4568 on the UNIGINE Superposition Benchmark at 1080p EXTREME settings

that is actually fine score for RX 6600,
modern games should run 60fps 1080p at medium, last year games should run a bit better

if this doesn't work out I'm going back to team green.

RTX 3060 is just slightly faster than RX 6600 non XT

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

750W PSU
750W is the advertised wattage for the PSU. What is the make and model of the PSU? To also add, how old is the unit?

I bought this Hellhound Rx 6600 brand new to replace my old GTX 1060
You're advised to run DDU to remove all GPU drivers from your platform prior to removing your older GPU and then manually reinstalling the latest driver in an elevated command(sourced off of Nvidia's support site) in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time?

 

[DrearSquirrel]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

750W PSU
750W is the advertised wattage for the PSU. What is the make and model of the PSU? To also add, how old is the unit?

I bought this Hellhound Rx 6600 brand new to replace my old GTX 1060
You're advised to run DDU to remove all GPU drivers from your platform prior to removing your older GPU and then manually reinstalling the latest driver in an elevated command(sourced off of Nvidia's support site) in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time?

I have a cooler master gx pro 750W of unknown origin, that could be a cheap upgrade to make. I got it secondhand, but I would expect it is more than enough for this mild system. I did run DDU to wipe the system of my old Nvidia drivers, though I could take another look at it. I don't know my BIOS version off the top of my head, I could check later on.

 

[DrearSquirrel]

that is actually fine score for RX 6600,
modern games should run 60fps 1080p at medium, last year games should run a bit better


RTX 3060 is just slightly faster than RX 6600 non XT

Still puzzling that my gaming performance is nothing like the benchmarks show. Could something else be bottlenecking my system? From monitoring my hardware, the 6600 is always the highest usage component when compared to my CPU, RAM, and SSD. Temperatures seem steady enough too. I have noticed that certain games have trouble getting close to 100% from any of my components.