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Upgrade to RX 6600 from GTX 1060
Hi I’m hoping to get some advice from the awesome community about upgrading my graphics card. My 7 or 8 year old GTX 1060 has been doing an excellent job for me for a long time, but I’m playing palworld at 20 fps right now and I’m thinking it might be time. From what I’ve read the RX 6600 is a great budget card. I just don’t know if the rest of my old girl would be able to keep up with it.
It’s an HP pavilion gaming desktop,

i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20 GHz
16 GB RAM (15.9 GB usable)
2x SSD

I’m certainly an amateur when it comes to PC building, so I’m not even sure if there are other specs I should be considering.
Any help and advice from you awesome people would be so greatly appreciated!
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Първоначално публикувано от eriskajam:
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honestly it could be a vram issue, as the game even on lowest hits around 6gb usage at 1080p
the gtx 1060 6gb is only about 10% faster then the 3gb version of not vram limited.


Would replacing the card with a newer one with more GB fix any VRAM issues?
Thanks again!
it might. it's hard to say. it wouldn't hurt.
it's just the first thing i thought of when i heard it was a gtx 1060 3gb
as the game uses alot of vram even on low, and performance drops off a cliff
when you run out of the stuff.

since you already bought the rx 6600 wait for it to arrive and see.
Първоначално публикувано от Bing Chilling:
also if the gtx 1060 fits i'm almost certain a RX 6600 will also fit, aslong as you didn't buy a 3 fan version of the card. lastly the motherboard will almost certainly support it.

A large chunk of the AUD$399 I was paid was SFF tax. I had to buy the Sapphire Pulse variant because it was the shortest version anyone made (ASRock make a similarly sized XT, but that was outside the budget and harder to get). If I'd had a more conventional case I could have saved AUD$70 or so at the time and opted for the XFX SWFT 210. The 1060 I had only fit because it was the EVGA SC version, which I scored for AUD$200 in like 2017 in what was an absolutely epic score since they were retailing for AUD$500+ new at the time due to currency fluctuations and mining).
Последно редактиран от lsdninja; 5 февр. 2024 в 21:02
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Oh also my 1060 is a 3 GB. Not sure if that would make a big difference or not.
Yes, it makes a noticeable difference because the 1060 3G was a cut down version of the 6G, it's around 10% slower and because of the VRAM, it heavily limits what settings the card can run even if the core could handle the settings

RX 6600 can render upwards of 60% or more frames at 1080p on average compared to the 1060 3G in popular titles these days, granted it's still a 1080p ~75Hz GPU for higher settings
Последно редактиран от r.linder; 5 февр. 2024 в 22:03
Thank you so very much to all of you for the super fast and super informative help! I’m so glad I reached out on here for advice. Gamers rock.
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Would replacing the card with a newer one with more GB fix any VRAM issues?
Thanks again!
it might. it's hard to say. it wouldn't hurt.
it's just the first thing i thought of when i heard it was a gtx 1060 3gb
as the game uses alot of vram even on low, and performance drops off a cliff
when you run out of the stuff.

since you already bought the rx 6600 wait for it to arrive and see.

Oh I haven’t bought it yet. Still information gathering! , so i can get a “ASrock” RX 6600 for around $330 CAD, a sapphire RX7600 for $360, or a MSI RTX 3050 for $308. The 6600 I was originally looking at is no longer on sale apparently. It’s a “power colour fighter” and is $370 now.
Does the brand that made it make a difference? Or is a RX 6600 the same no matter who made it?
Последно редактиран от eriskajam; 6 февр. 2024 в 7:10
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it might. it's hard to say. it wouldn't hurt.
it's just the first thing i thought of when i heard it was a gtx 1060 3gb
as the game uses alot of vram even on low, and performance drops off a cliff
when you run out of the stuff.

since you already bought the rx 6600 wait for it to arrive and see.

Oh I haven’t bought it yet. Still information gathering! , so i can get a “ASrock” RX 6600 for around $330 CAD, a sapphire RX7600 for $360, or a MSI RTX 3050 for $308. The 6600 I was originally looking at is no longer on sale apparently. It’s a “power colour fighter” and is $370 now.
Does the brand that made it make a difference? Or is a RX 6600 the same no matter who made it?
simply not. it makes a differnece. which one could you buy? we may tell you, if it is a good deal!?
Последно редактиран от mtono; 6 февр. 2024 в 7:40
My first preference for AMD/ATi cards will always be Sapphire, but XFX and PowerColor are ATi/AMD-exclusive as well.
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Oh I haven’t bought it yet. Still information gathering! , so i can get a “ASrock” RX 6600 for around $330 CAD, a sapphire RX7600 for $360, or a MSI RTX 3050 for $308. The 6600 I was originally looking at is no longer on sale apparently. It’s a “power colour fighter” and is $370 now.
Does the brand that made it make a difference? Or is a RX 6600 the same no matter who made it?
simply not. it makes a differnece. which one could you buy? we may tell you, if it is a good deal!?


Well those are the ones in my price range (under $400 with taxes) but I’m thinking of the three the sapphire RX 6700 might be the best?
For only CAD$30 more than an RX 6600 it’s probably worth it. Sapphire are a good brand too, basically ATI/AMDs EVGA.
The GPU itself will be the same regardless of brand, but the board the chip sits on might vary. Think of the GPU as a CPU and the board it comes on as a motherboard (even has VRMs that feed the chip and memory on it). AMD defines standards that things need to meet to ensure it operates as they have defined it, so it's not quite the wild West or anything but there might be differences in things such as cooling, noise, overclocking, or quality/longevity. Performance will be plus or minus the "same thing" though.

So when it comes to picking a brand, performance shouldn't be a huge factor. Intangibles (like looks, size, shape, cooling/noise, etc.) are what will distinguish them.

The 6700 (non-XT) is a bit of a unique choice, presuming you didn't typo 7600. The 6700 was an uncommon and slightly reduced 6700 XT and instead of having 8 GB on a 128-bit bus (x600 series) or 12 GB on a 192-bit bus (x700 series), it's in-between with 10 GB on a 160-bit bus. Nothing wrong with this in and of itself; you just don't see it often (I wish nVidia might have considered this for their RTX 4060 series instead of dropping it from 192-bit to 128-bit). If it's notably cheaper than the 6700 XT and not much more expensive than the 6600s, then it's a nice choice if you can still find one.
Brand only really matters for the quality

Sapphire is the best quality for Radeon video card models, for Nvidia it was EVGA, but since they dropped out of making video cards, I would put stock in the Founders Edition models of any of the partnered brands now because none of them really stand out as much as EVGA did, they all have problems

Gigabyte has had some of the worst quality models with the highest rate of failures, especially on Radeon. They have similar sales figures as Sapphire for the same GPUs, but a notably much higher rate of RMAs.
Sapphire have been making cards based on Team Red GPUs since they went by ATi. I have a Sapphire 9500 Pro that I bought new in like 2002 or 2003 that still works. It's in a Pentium 4 box I put together for vintage gaming.
Get the Rx 6700 at least because the others below it are cut down to 8x pcie lanes, which means your PC won't be benefitting the Rx 6600 as much because of the lane operation.

The Rx 6700/6800 solve this issue by actually giving you a full graphic card that will use all 16 pcie 3.0 lanes. Don't get the Rx 6600 unless it's like $150.

Even then, the low price wouldn't hide the shortcomings of the Rx 6600.

The only one below that makes any sense at all is the Rx 6400, which would be too slow for your needs. But at least the Rx 6400 has more versatility being a single slot card and no need for a power pin.

But for you, I wouldn't go any less than Rx 6700 10g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXWK1WlqoBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86pRe_GeT1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7NIeNEV78

PCI-e 4.0 doesn't make a meaningful difference over 3.0 for an x8 GPU, the CPU will literally make a much bigger difference than slot bandwidth. For x4 GPUs like the 6400 and 6500-XT, it can make a much more noticeable difference because that's very little bandwidth to work with, and then considering that a lot of buyers are using older and lower end machines to begin with for the most part, even more performance is potentially left off the table.

The 8700 will bottleneck the RX 6700 either way when it comes to some CPU heavier titles. But there's always a bottleneck and you should always go for the best you can afford, even if you have to put up with an older CPU temporarily because there's no point in choosing less than what you can afford just because your CPU can't do it right now.
Последно редактиран от r.linder; 6 февр. 2024 в 9:25
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simply not. it makes a differnece. which one could you buy? we may tell you, if it is a good deal!?


Well those are the ones in my price range (under $400 with taxes) but I’m thinking of the three the sapphire RX 6700 might be the best?
if the 6700 (non XT) is similar in price to the 7600 or a the 6600 then yeah it's the best choice
it's the fastest of the three and has 10gb of vram instead of the 8gb on the other two cards
i didn't mention it as, they aren't sold here in canada for some reason.
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