AMD RX 6600 Review ft. ASUS and Gigabyte

1. Introduction2. ASUS RX 6600 Dual3. Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing7. Assassin's Creed Valhalla8. Control9. Cyberpunk 207710. Days Gone11. F1 202112. Gears 513. Hitman 314. Horizon Zero Dawn15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Resident Evil Village17. Total War Saga: Troy18. Watch Dogs: Legion19. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)20. Cost Per Frame Analysis21. Ray Tracing - Cyberpunk 207722. Ray Tracing - Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition23. Ray Tracing - Resident Evil: Village24. ASUS Dual vs Gigabyte Eagle25. Clock Speed26. GPU Temperatures27. Acoustics28. Noise-Normalised Temperatures29. Power Draw: 1080p30. Power Draw: 1440p31. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)32. Performance per Watt: 1080p33. Performance per Watt: 1440p34. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)35. Total System Power Draw36. Overclocking37. Closing Thoughts38. View All Pages

Following on from our stock thermal and acoustic testing, here we re-test the operating temperature of the GPU, but with noise levels normalised to 40dBa. This allows us to measure the efficiency of the overall cooling solution as varying noise levels as a result of more aggressive fan curves are no longer a factor.

Both GPUs were already running very cool anyway, and we didn't see massive reductions in temperature when noise-normalising to 40dBa. If anything, you'd want to be slowing the fan curve for lower noise levels, as there is clearly plenty of thermal headroom to do so.

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