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hudder
Journeyman III

RX 6600 or 7600?

Hello, I was planning to get a new desktop with a Ryzen 5500, 32GB RAM, and either an RX 6600 or 7600 GPU. Currently I use a laptop with a GTX 1050, and Intel i5 8300h. But now I am upgrading, and saw both the RX 6600 and 7600 as good options. Which GPU should i go with? I see the RX 6600 for as little as $179. The RX 7600 is $254 on the lowest price I see, but it's the next generation. How much better is it actually? Is it worth spending the extra $70 by bringing significant performance gains? Or is it a minimal performance uplift with little reason to waste more money? I have a $700 PC budget, so I want to only spend on what I need to spend. I play lots of older games, and some modern titles, and I do like very high fps even when not necessary. But I don't want to waste $70 more if it's only a small performance uplift.

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FunkZ
Grandmaster

I think you answered your own question. If you're building a new desktop from scratch (replacing a laptop) and only have $700 to buy everything, spending 10% of that budget on a minimal upgrade from a 6600XT to a 7600XT just isn't worth it.

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BigAl01
Volunteer Moderator

Sometimes it depends on the games you want to play.  A limited budget never goes far when it comes to the video card.  I would get the RX 6600  and start saving for a newer card now.


As Albert Einstein said, "I could have done so much more with a Big Al's Computer!".
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