GPU Conundrum!!!!

[olam1985]

Hi All,

 

I have a Vega 56, clocked with a Vega 64 bios. I can purchase a radeon AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Sapphire Pulse for an additional £100 I am looking at the specs, is the 6600xt worth the extra £100?! The specifications are abit skewed Vega has a significantly higher memory bus, but the 6600 scores higher on synthetic benchmarks!

[Action_Johnson]

Best way to look at is, is it's a 5700XT with Ray Tracing support. Make sure your motherboard's PCI-E x16 slot is Gen 4, as the 6600XT only has 8 lanes wired up, and in some games that like alot of bandwidth (like Doom Eternal), there's a noticable performance delta between PCI-E 3.0 and 4.0 on that card. 

[m9x3mos]

1 hour ago, Action_Johnson said:

Best way to look at is, is it's a 5700XT with Ray Tracing support. Make sure your motherboard's PCI-E x16 slot is Gen 4, as the 6600XT only has 8 lanes wired up, and in some games that like alot of bandwidth (like Doom Eternal), there's a noticable performance delta between PCI-E 3.0 and 4.0 on that card. 

Did something change? All the videos I saw on gen 4 showed that there was no noticeable performance delta for video cards. 

[jaslion]

It's a card to weak to use ray tracing so that feature is out of the windows already. Then performance wise it's at best 20% better. But since you got a boosted vega 56 it will be even less. I'd say no really.