Prices keep dropping on these low to mid range cards… Free postage makes this one a little better then others
Maybe best to HOLD but if you need something now this price is at least not a ripp off
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Yep.. its likely we will see further drops… can only hope.
Agreed, the best way to mark the resurrection of the lord is via chocolate bunnies and cheap gpu prices.
Not great card for hobby mining if you consider for that purpose.
My very old 1060 does 44 MHS and 6600 does 55 MHS on ERG, RVN 1060 does 11 MHs and 6600 does 15 MHS.
For mining 3600ti or higher still preferred.
If you need a card for basic gaming it maybe fine, but $500 isn't cheap for a card that should be $300.
it still does good eth no?
ETH should be 28 mhs vs 3060ti 48mhs.
6600 uses close to a third of the power compared to 3060ti, also you are not getting a 3060ti for $499
@pembajak_sejati: Yes power is an issue, but when for mining density is a greater issue. I don't want to have 10 cards when I can have 3. Power is 50w vs 130w on 3060ti. But relatively small price difference and hash rate outweigh the higher consumption.
6600 is not the best option for mining.
its USD MSRP is $329… i dont think we will ever see a $300 low/mid range cards ever again… mostly due to inflation shooting up so much.. just look at house prices and the cost of everything else these days.
The RX470/480 and GTX1060/1060 3GB was the last golden age of PC gaming.
I remember buying a RX470 on release day for $250 AUD :) .. technically that's what this 6600 8GB card is today but with inflation and some high entry pricing from AMD its at double the cost.
The good days alight. I got my rx570 8gb's from Shopping Express Dec 2019 for $169 each.
Perhaps…. Don't think I would have paid more than $300 for 1060. You look at RAM and HDs, these didn't seem to go up reflecting higher inflation. Perhaps the Duopoly of GPUs makers have a bigger play in pricing. Good to see prices coming down anyways. I am still waiting for 3600ti to be at $670 (my last purchase) or less. High end cards should be 1k, so a bit of room to downside still.
There were heaps of 3600ti cards at $670 on the last sale.
Lol half a grand for GTX 1080 performance in 2022. Won't even run cyberbug77 or microsofts solitaire plane game at 60fps.
The $340 GTX 1060 6GB had no problems running 2016 games at 60fps. What do these companies take us for? Idiots that'll pay anything for any crap? Oh yeah they're probably right
Is this even GTX1080 performance though? I ask because 1080 does OK still does OK at 1440 most games, as long as you don't care about lightening fast frame rate.
According to AMD fans and techpowerup.com. Reality is probably somewhere between that and gpu.userbenchmark.com results.
If you go on youtube it is indeed slower than GTX 1080 in a lot of games, despite "reliable" sources and fanboys arguing it's 10% faster. AMD drivers have usually been sub optimal/unstable too, a small percentage of people even experience crashing mid game (drivers causing crashing was common 20 years ago but shouldn't be today).
Lol.. according to the tech press on youtube who benchmark these for a living the 6600 is as fast as a RTX2070 and not that much slower then a 3060 at 1080p gaming. Around <10% mostley at 1440P vs 3060 is the largest gap.. 20 years of using amd/ati and Nvidia GPUs … never had many issues with either companys drivers.. i dont know why people keep talking about this as one side is better then the other… they are the same. They have both had issues here and there. Youtube 6600 vs 1080.. around 20 videos pup up showing the 6600 crushing it… sometimes at almost 30FPS more
Some YouTube 20 game average shows 10% faster than a GTX1080. A lot of games trade blows so it depends what you play. Probably barely noticeable, and negated by the fact GTX1080's drivers are well honed by this point and offer the trademark of the NVidia features like GPU acceleration in more productivity apps.
I'm no NVidia fanboy; I'll probably never buy one again for how they gauged the market last 2 years - but I agree the price on these lower-mid range cards still have a way to go before they are value for money.
PS: These has dropped to $429 Delivered (3 left).
Easter is only 2 weeks away, sure we will see better gpu prices!