AMD Radeon RX 6600 Linux Performance
AMD sent over the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 EAGLE 8GB graphics card for this launch-day Linux performance testing.
As mentioned, this Radeon RX 6600 graphics card has been running well on Linux with the current open-source driver stack. Fortunately, no headaches to deal with in needing to make use of any Git components unless you so choose, no firmware delays to worry about, etc. For those running a supported enterprise Linux distribution, AMD today will be releasing an updated Radeon Software for Linux driver package with RX 6600 support.
RX 6600 tests looking at the different driver options/configurations on Linux will come with time while for today's article the RX 6600 and all other AMD graphics cards were tested using a Linux 5.15 Git stack paired with Mesa 21.3-devel as of when the testing began. Meanwhile on the NVIDIA side all of the GeForce graphics cards were tested using their latest driver, NVIDIA 470.74.
The usual AMD Ryzen 9 5900X test system was used for this launch-day benchmarking while running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with the noted AMD and NVIDIA driver upgrades. All of the supported graphics cards were also tested with ReBAR / SAM enabled with always re-testing the graphics cards for each major launch and to ensure the newest Linux driver exposure.
The graphics cards tested for today's Radeon RX 6600 Linux review included:
- GTX 1060
- GTX 1660 SUPER
- GTX 1660 Ti
- RTX 3060
- RTX 3060 Ti
- RTX 3070
- RTX 3070 Ti
- RTX 3080 Ti
- RTX 3090
- RX 590
- RX Vega 56
- RX 5500 XT
- RX 5600 XT
- RX 5700 XT
- RX 6600
- RX 6600 XT
- RX 6700 XT
- RX 6800
- RX 6800 XT
A wide range of Linux-native as well as Steam Play (Proton + DXVK) titles were tested for today's Radeon RX 6600 review.