XFX Speedster SWFT 210 Radeon RX 6600 Core 8GB GDDR6 Gaming Graphics Card

Based On The RDNA 2 Architecture And Designed To Handle The Graphical Demands Of Full HD 1080p Gaming, The XFX Speedster SWFT 210 RX 6600 SWFT Gaming Graphics Card Provides An Immersive Gaming Experience With Your PC Games. The GPU Features 8GB Of GDDR6 VRAM And A 128-Bit Memory Interface, Offering Improved Performance And Power Efficiency Over The Previous RDNA-Based Generation.The Front Panel Of The Card Features A Variety Of Outputs, Such As DisplayPort 1.4 And HDMI 2.1. HDMI 2.1 Supports Up To 48 Gb/S Bandwidth And A Range Of Higher Resolutions And Refresh Rates, Including 8K @ 60 Fps, 4K @ 120 Fps, And Even Up To 10K. The XFX Speedster SWFT 210 RX 6600 Supports APIs Such As DirectX 12 Ultimate And OpenGL. These APIs Can Take Advantage Of The GPU's 2048 Stream Processors To Accelerate Parallel Computing Tasks, Taking Some Of The Processing Load Off Of The CPU.For Cooling, XFX Implemented A Dual Fan Cooler.DirectX 12 UltimateDirectX12 Ultimate Gives Game Developers The Power To Deliver Immersive Visuals With Real-Time DirectX Raytracing (DXR), Variable Rate Shading (VRS), Mesh Shaders, And Sampler Feedback, Taking Games To The Next Level.AMD FidelityFXAMD FidelityFX Is An Open-Source Image-Quality Toolkit Comprising Of Seven Different Solutions Available For Game Developers To Implement Into Their Games That Are Optimized For AMD RDNA And RDNA 2 Architectures.AMD Radeon Image SharpeningRestores Clarity To In-Game Images That Have Been Softened By Other Post-Process Effects. RIS Combines With GPU Upscaling To Provide Sharp Visuals At Fluid Frame Rates On Very High-Resolution Displays, And Works Across DirectX 9, 12, And Vulkan Titles.AMD FreeSync 2 TechnologyReduce Screen Tearing With AMD's FreeSync 2 Technology. FreeSync 2 Enables The Monitor To Dynamically Adjust Its Refresh Rate To The Frame Rate Being Output By The Graphics Card, Thereby Greatly Reducing Screen Tearing, Stuttering, And Other Artifacts.Radeon Anti-LagOptimized For ESports, Radeon Anti-Lag Improves Competitiveness By Decreasing Input-To-Display Response Times By Up To 31 Percent, Delivering An Experience Similar To Higher Frame Rates.AMD Radeon BoostAMD Radeon Boost Dynamically Lowers Resolution Of The Entire Frame When Fast On-Screen Character Motion Is Detected Via User Input, Allowing For Higher FPS With Little Impact To Quality.

XFX Speedster SWFT 210 Radeon RX 6600 Core 8GB GDDR6 Gaming Review

If you want a GPU that can more easily make the jump from high-detail 1080p to 1440p play, cards based on AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT or Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 Ti make better financial sense (mind you, in a time when there's little of that to be found in the third-party card market). That said, if you're fond of older game titles, AMD's drivers remain a core shortfall for the RX 6600 and its XT-badged bigger sibling. Gamers who play a lot of legacy titles that use older versions of Microsoft DirectX should consider competing Nvidia options instead...if they can find them.Looking at current-generation GPUs, the Radeon RX 6600's key competitor is clearly the GeForce RTX 3060. Each has its own strengths. Between the two, the Radeon RX 6600 wins outright when it comes to power draw. As a result, those on the hunt for a lower-power, smaller-footprint card won't be disappointed in what the XFX card seen here has to offer.The XFX Speedster SWFT 210 RX 6600 card we have in hand is one of a host of third-party designs based on AMD's Radeon RX 6600 GPU; AMD is not offering an official reference version or house-brand card as Nvidia often does. Like other RX 6000 series GPUs, the Radeon RX 6600 is built on the company's RDNA 2 architecture and features TSMC's 7nm lithography on a 237-square-millimeter "Navi 23 XT" die.XFX Speedster SWFT 210 RX 6600 dual-slot, dual-fan XFX Speedster SWFT RX 6600 is 10.1 inches long, which is larger than many 1080p gamers might like. However, our test card is just one of many different styles (including single-fan options) that will be available when the RX 6600 goes on sale today.AMD has published a reference spec for this card, which the 8GB XFX Speedster SWFT 210 matches exactly, though as mentioned the chipmaker won't be producing any cards of its own on this run. To pick up the slack, most of the regular third-party vendors have announced incoming versions, though what available stock will look like at launch we'll have to see.The XFX Speedster SWFT 210 RX 6600 sports a boost clock a little less than 100MHz below the RX 6600 XT's and slightly fewer active stream processors, but other than that (and the oddly specific power requirements) the two cards share specs up and down the line.Speaking of that 132-watt power requirement, it's quite a bit lower than Nvidia's 170-watt baseline for the GeForce RTX 3060—22% lower, to be exact. This is a considerable margin, and for users trying to build a low-power, small-form-factor 1080p gaming machine (a popular build type for many gamers) arguably gives the Radeon RX 6600 its strongest advantage over Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060.As for ports, the back of our XFX card contains the same standard lineup we've seen on most GPUs lining (or, rather, widely spaced on) the shelves these days: three DisplayPort 1.4b outputs, one HDMI 2.1 port, and no VirtualLink.PC Labs ran the XFX Speedster SWFT 210 through a series of DirectX 11- and 12-based synthetic and real-world benchmarks. Our test rig, used for all cards in the charts below, is based on an Intel Core i9-10900K processor and employs a PCI Express 3.0, not 4.0, motherboard (an Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero Wi-Fi(Opens in a new window)). It's equipped with 16GB of G.Skill DDR4 memory and a solid-state boot drive. Given our tests with the Core i9-10900K and recent Ryzen 9 CPUs, this platform is the best reasonable configuration at the moment to take the CPU out of the equation for frame rates. (Read more about how we test graphics cards.)For our testing, we focused some of the effort on the Speedster's esports aspect with games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) and Rainbow Six Siege. We also ran the card through the rest of our standard benchmark regimen, which tests a GPU's abilities to handle AAA games at the highest possible quality settings, as well as how it rides during synthetic benchmarks that stress the card in a variety of ways.Almost every test we run (aside from the esports titles) is done at the highest possible visual quality preset or settings. If you have a higher-hertz gaming monitor and are worried your card might not make the frame-rate grade, it could still be possible with a combination of lower settings. Not only that, but some of these titles (including Death Stranding, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and F1 2020) have both DLSS and FidelityFX CAS with Upscaling integrated directly into the game. This can yield performance boosts of up to 40%, depending on the setting and the card you're playing with. (See our guide to these technologies, Sharpen & Speed Up Your PC Games: Testing AMD's FSR, Nvidia's DLSS 2.2 & More, for more.)And so, onward to our test results. Note: If you want to narrow down the results below to a specific resolution (i.e., the resolution of the monitor you plan to use), click the other two resolution dots in the chart legends below to suppress them and see a single set of results. Our list of AAA titles includes a mix of recent games as well as some older but still reliable pillars of the benchmarker's toolkit like Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Far Cry 5.Synthetic benchmarks can be good predictors of real-world gaming performance. In UL's 3DMark, the circa-2013 Fire Strike Ultra is still a go-to approximation of the load levied by mainstream 4K gaming. We're looking only at the test's Graphics Subscore, not the Overall Score, to isolate the card's performance. Meanwhile, we also ran 3DMark's Time Spy Extreme, which is a good test of how well a card will do specifically in DirectX 12 games at 4K resolution. 3DMark's Port Royal, until recently run only on GeForce RTX cards, measures how well a GPU handles ray-tracing tasks (thus the absent bars for most of the AMD Radeon cards). Also here are a pair of GPU-acceleration tests (Furmark and LuxMark); more details on those at the "how we test" link above.