Gameplay Performance at 1080p with Ray Tracing
For this section, we enable Ray Tracing in the game. All the settings otherwise remain unchanged, 1080p with all the dials turned up as high as they go. DLSS and FSR are once again utilized where it is suitable and supported by the game.
Chernobylite
Well, you can try and make this as painless as possible…..but the AMD video cards, regardless of generation, just don’t have the stuff in this new game if you enable Ray Tracing. Ouch, beat down by 53FPS. That’s more than all three can generate. Oh my.
F1 2022
This game is reasonably playable without upscaling. Our SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 7600 in the overclocked state does take the win by 4% and 10%. At stock, it falls behind the RTX 3060 until FSR is enabled. The SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 7600 is 40% faster than the RX 6600.
Dying Light 2
This game is demanding until you enable FSR. None of the cards can run it without upscaling. Our SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 7600 is out 12%. It is playable in FSR but still behind the RTX 3060 by 3% in FSR. This is a 40% improvement from the last generation.
Far Cry 6
Here we see that DX Ray Tracing is a little kinder to the frame rates. Again, in this game, the performance is fast before upscaling. Our stock SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 7600 is 6% faster than the RTX 3060, but essentially even in FSR. The stock card is 34% quicker than the last generation RX 6600!!
Cyberpunk 2077
There are a bunch of sore backsides here. Not a single card can muster more than 30FPS until the upscaling is added. Even then the RTX 3060 is the lone survivor, but still not playable at “ULTRA”. This game is so tough, you’d simply have to dial down the Ray Tracing or up the level in upscaling to “performance” or “ultraperformance”. (unfortunately at this resolution the image quality suffers….a lot…. if you do that) This is not the game for Ray Tracing for these cards.
Watch Dogs Legion
This is another game with brutal Ray Tracing demands. Nobody has the “stuff” here. The RX 6600 can’t even get out of the blocks…it simply crashes. The RTX 3060 has the upper hand by 21% and 50%.
Discussion (7 replies)
Join Discussion →Nice card for 1080p gaming all things considered.
Surprisingly so......it feels like it could really overclock well, if the maximum wasn't capped.
Maybe there could be a 7600 xt with extra 50w to 70w budget (& doubling vram to 16gb) for $330 to $350
But, not sure if increasing power budget massively will retain the profit margin for AMD
If AMD wants to compete with Nvidia they need to get into AI acceleration in a big way. That's really the big hurdle to their path as a Trillion Dollar company leaving Intel in their wake and bringing competition to the AI market space.
But It's clear Intel is on that game plan as well. Yet they are doing it via dedicated code paths on their CPU's. Unfortunately for Intel they are not at the forefront of this technology, and the big players have the resources to fab their own custom chips to do this if it REALLY comes down to it.
Depends on how you want to compete, moreso than who you want to compete with.
nVidia is definitely pivoting into commercial AI. AMD so far has not, and has went the path of consumer devices / custom SOCs
I don't know that you necessarily want to compete against a company against their strength unless you have no other choice -- AMD has a lot of other things they are doing well without necessarily needing to throw the Billions of dollars it will take to dump into AI-specific computer R&D.
Will they catch nVidia at AI? Probably not - but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Nice review!
vs 1080ti? Sidegrade or upgrade? I don't give a hoot about ray tracing. I mean not that I really need to, it's doing Diablo 4 on 4K high at 60+ and looks great. Ultra punishes it a bit and I don't really see much difference....
Remember we tested at 1080. If you can run your games at 4K with what you have, I'd stay put. This card is not a 4K performer.....maybe, some games would be OK at 1440 as demonstrated, but not 4K.