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Warhammer III is another new game and this one uses the Warscape Engine 3 which is used exclusively by the Total War series. Here the GeForce GPUs currently enjoy a small performance advantage.

If you're confused by the 3060 Ti pricing, it is very close to the 3070 Ti after all, that's because the demand for the 3070 Ti from miners is lower as all 3070 Ti models are 'Lite Hash Rate' and therefore aren't as efficient for cryptocurrency mining.Now let's move on to some ray tracing testing and we'll start with Cyberpunk 2077, and please note due to limited time with these cards we've only compared the 6600 XT against the most relevant part, the RTX 3060 Ti. Standard rasterization performance saw the 6600 XT trail the 3060 Ti by a 14% margin at 1080p, and with both using ray traced reflections that margin blows out to a 44% deficit. Here's a breakdown of the 1080p benchmarks from our 12-game sample. As you can see, the Radeon 6600 XT came out 9% slower than the 3060 Ti which is weak and won't position it well in terms of cost per frame, at least based on the mythical MSRP, but we'll get to that soon... AMD also tested five more popular esports games on the RTX 3060 and RX 6600 XT, and the margins are a lot closer there. The RX 6600 XT trails by 1% in Valorant and leads by up to 10% in the other four games. Not that most people are going to be worried about the difference between 553 and 556 fps, but if we include all 15 results, then AMD's RX 6600 XT on average leads the RTX 3060 by 9%. AMD also informed us (though it didn't provide any benchmark results) that it expects the RX 6600 XT performance to land between the RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti, which at least partly explains the pricing. For most of this GPU generation, and for a significant part of the last, the regular refrain has been that raw performance numbers are one thing, but Nvidia has a serious edge in terms of the extra features. While real-time ray tracing has been touted as the biggest, realistically it's the almost-indistinguishable-from-magic Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) tech that has garnered more industry plaudits.

The 1440p margins are about the same. The 6600 XT is able to match the RTX 3060 Ti as it delivered 5700 XT-like performance, which is not amazing and what you'd expect to see at this price point. The problem is that all the trimming of the fat will inevitably affect the flavor of the steak. In addition, while the computational performance of the RX 6600 XT looks good — it's only about 20% lower than the RX 6700 XT — the reduction in memory bandwidth and capacity, as well as L3 cache, will also reduce performance. We'll see just how far in a bit, but the RX 5700 XT will be an interesting point of comparison, considering it has significantly more bandwidth but runs on the original RDNA architecture. They utilise 8GB of GDDR6 memory, with 32MB AMD’s infinity cache. What brands manufacture this graphics card? The performance hit running Assassin's Creed Valhalla at 1080p is fairly minimal, though we are looking at a 5% reduction in performance and that does bring the 6600 XT closer to the 3060 Ti in a title where previously it had quite a large performance advantage.Starting with Dying Light 2, this recently released game uses a proprietary 3D game engine developed by Techland known as Chrome Engine 6, and it's the only game in our test suite to use it.