Sapphire RX 6600 XT Pulse Review

1. Introduction2. Sapphire RX 6600 XT Pulse3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. 1080p Game Benchmarks7. Clock Speed8. GPU Temperatures9. Acoustics10. Noise-Normalised Temperatures11. Power Consumption12. Overclocking13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark for modern gaming PCs. Its ambitious real-time graphics are rendered with detail and complexity far beyond other DirectX 11 benchmarks and games. Fire Strike includes two graphics tests, a physics test and a combined test that stresses the CPU and GPU. (UL).

3DMark Time Spy is a DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spy is one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built the right way from the ground up to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, which supports new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal test for benchmarking the latest graphics cards. (UL).

Kicking off with our 3DMark benchmarks, there's really nothing between either the Sapphire Pulse or Gigabyte Gaming OC Pro cards in these benchmarks. The Gaming OC Pro does score fractionally higher in Fire Strike and Time Spy, but we're talking differences of less than 1%. Meanwhile, in Fire Strike Ultra, the Pulse is just 0.1% ahead of the Gaming OC Pro.

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