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Review: Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Pulse

by Tarinder Sandhu on 26 October 2021, 14:01

Tags: Sapphire, AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Conclusion

The Pulse is a no-nonsense card that's compact, quiet and well built.

The Radeon RX 6600 comes in at an interesting time for the industry. Set against severe stock shortages, the baby of the RX 6000 bunch is designed as a high-quality 1080p solution for DIY PC builders.

It succeeds in that aim but falls flat on availability. Sapphire cannot control the latter yet does well with what it has to work with. The Pulse is a no-nonsense card that's compact, quiet and well built.

As usual, it is difficult to fault what Sapphire does. The Pulse is another fine addition that, if available anywhere near the £300 RRP, is a fine choice for entry-level PC gaming.

The Good
  
The Bad
Solid 1080p numbers
Restrained power
Surprisingly quiet
  
Availability
RTX 3060 ray-tracing is better



Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Pulse

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Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH - Tue 26 Oct 2021 16:31
Scan had these briefly for £335 - a mate of mine nabbed one. Still overpriced but at least it will be twice the performance of their GTX980.
Posted by Friesiansam - Tue 26 Oct 2021 16:41
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A no-nonsense card that works well.
That's my kind of graphics card, although I want something with rather more grunt, when I get around to replacing my current card.
Posted by stevie lee - Tue 26 Oct 2021 17:36
CAT-THE-FIFTH
Scan had these briefly for £335 - a mate of mine nabbed one. Still overpriced but at least it will be twice the performance of their GTX980.

only twice?

according to gpu.userbenchmark site this is 686% quicker than mine on average. MRender is +1,226% faster.
HD7770. the 750ti broke, artifacting all over the place. even in BIOS.

and its also another reason to not do win11. theres no drivers for mine, they stopped supporting it in the may cull.

but i'd also need a new monitor, unless my dvi>hdmi converter block (that came with a 4870 gpu) works on the input end of the monitor.. then ill still be on 1680x1050.
Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH - Tue 26 Oct 2021 17:44
stevie lee;4303735
only twice?

according to gpu.userbenchmark site this is 686% quicker than mine on average. MRender is +1,226% faster.
HD7770. the 750ti broke, artifacting all over the place. even in BIOS.

and its also another reason to not do win11. theres no drivers for mine, they stopped supporting it in the may cull.

but i'd also need a new monitor, unless my dvi>hdmi converter block (that came with a 4870 gpu) works on the input end of the monitor.. then ill still be on 1680x1050.

Well I guestimated it as twice going from this:
https://tpucdn.com/review/powercolor-radeon-rx-6600-fighter/images/relative-performance_1920-1080.png
https://tpucdn.com/review/msi-rx-580-mech-2/images/perfrel_1920_1080.png
https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-rx-480/images/perfrel_3840_2160.png

Polaris was the immediate AMD generation over Maxwell. But another issue is the GTX980 is limited to 4GB VRAM,and has poor DX12/Vulkan performance so its probably more in certain newer titles. Its still not ideal,ie,as I think the RX6600 should be under £300(around £250~£280) but ATM dGPUs sees to not getting any better in terms of supply. Personally,I might have waited and at least saw if there was an RTX3060TI FE drop like there was last week,but it would mean reacting to notifications quickly.
Posted by QuorTek - Tue 26 Oct 2021 21:31
actually wonder if the Companies selling these card in general, would drop the RGB or make without RGB variants more of the same types… I mean today it is like you need to pay extra for the RGB, when you only are interested in better factory OC's and such.

It is like adding a Turbo button when it say RGB or logo… as it was very much back in the 80's when there was Turbo everything haha.

Either way would say it is the plus, but not the kind og card I would focus on as I need much more power, maybe it will end for all PCI-E 5.0 and DDR5 when I get next system now… so no need for GFX at 4.0

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