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I own a RX 6600 XT, I bought it for ~$200, best card ever for 1080p, works out of the box on linux

A bit sad about the TDP, from 160W to 190W, but the price remains cheap at $329

I plan to upgrade to a bigger screen so this looks like the perfect upgrade for me

Just curious if you're using it for gaming or other uses? I find it wild that $300 cards are the cheap end now when buying one for that 10 years ago was spending over 50% of my builds price on an upgrade part. Normally I find used eBay mining cards and run with them for four years.

What distro are you using that it worked out of the box? I threw my 580x on an ubuntu fork a few years ago and had a hell of a time getting it working.

> I find it wild that $300 cards are the cheap

The natural consequence of printing a ton of money

> I threw my 580x on an ubuntu fork a few years ago

I’ve found AMD cards to be the most stable under Linux

I use it for both gaming and gamedev

My gaming setup runs on Arch Linux, i had a RX 580 just before that one, i don't remember having issues setting it up

1. (According to my short research) 300$ in 2013 are a bit below 400$ nowadays, so you also kinda gotta take that into account.

2. Low-end GPUs have been/are being attempted to be mostly replaced by APUs (at least on the AMD side) which kinda makes sense.

3. Normal pricing has gone outta the window ever since the NFT craze (or demand if you wanna put it that way) and now the AI craze.

Sorry for off topic.

Wolframalpha makes it easy to compare USD accross years and uses official inflation numbers. "2013 $300" [0] would be worth $386 now (2024).

If you use ddg, that's "!wa 2013 $300" or if you want it in reverse "!wa $300 in 2023"

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2013+%24300

Didn't know WA actually did that, but not too surprised.

(Also, you writing it out again I kinda forgot that it's 2024, not 2023)

Interestingly, it only seems to work if you force US dollars. When it defaults to Canadian dollars for me it tries to multiply $300 by 2013 inches.

Went from 480 to 7800 on Arch, both Just Worked (install Mesa and that's about it). On the other hand I tried like 3 different 5600s a few years ago, and it was unstable enough that I got it replaced with a 580 (basically a rebadged 480).

You can also buy a used card. Most mid+ cards from the last 5 years are quite capable. I got a 5700 XT to play some games and it’s I think better than any console you can buy? Cost $170 I think. Can do 1440p in most games still

It should be basically any distro. The driver is part of the kernel.

I’ve got a regular RX 6600 (non-XT), and it’s been fantastic for the mostly older and/or indie games I tend to play, even at 1440p.

Eager to know how this will compare. I’d like something beefier than what I have now, but what used to buy you a whole upper-mid-range PC barely covers an upper-mid-range GPU.

I use the non-XT with dual WQHD monitors with no issues. But I also don’t play any shooters or other action games.

could you just throttle the card down to 160W?

Very easily, AMD has been releasing cards overvolted out of the box for ages, playing it very safe.

GP was not suggesting playing with voltages but simply power limiting the card, which tends to be easier to do and doesn't affect stability but has a performance hit.

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