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Can I run Fortnite with a Radeon RX 6600?

The Radeon RX 6600 lands 400% above what Fortnite asks at minimum and 9% below the 11 it would need for recommended.

The Radeon RX 6600 arrived 4 years after Fortnite shipped, so the game was never designed with it in mind: 10 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Fortnite. It sits 39 of 47 on our index.

estimated index 10 · 8 GB · 2021
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs at minimum

Playable at the lowest supported settings, with nothing in reserve.

Headroom
100% clear - a wide margin on VRAM
Bottleneck
GPU
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

  1. minimum cleared
  2. recommended blocked by GPU
  3. high blocked by GPU
  4. ultra blocked by GPU + VRAM

The weakest link is graphics card: this rig brings 10 against the 11 that Fortnite asks for at the recommended tier. Everything else in the rig is already past that line.

That readout is the best this card can do in Fortnite: it assumes nothing else in the machine holds it back. Your own processor and memory can only lower it, never raise it.

The same card with three different processors

In Fortnite the processor beside a Radeon RX 6600 changes the answer, which is why a card-only verdict is not worth much here. Each row assumes 16 GB of system memory.

Processor Index Verdict Bottleneck
Ryzen 5 1600 30 Will not run processor
Ryzen 9 5900X 70 Runs at minimum graphics card
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs at minimum graphics card

Cheapest way up one tier

graphics card: GeForce GTX 1080

The Radeon RX 6600 sits at index 10 and the recommended tier starts at 11.

That is the smallest part in our catalogue that clears the recommended tier - not the fastest one, and not a price claim: we hold no price data, so "cheapest" here means "least upgrade that does the job".

Where to look: GeForce GTX 1080 (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the Radeon RX 6600 clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.

System requirement thresholds for Fortnite, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 2 11 18 32 10
CPU index 42 55 65 86 0
Video memory 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 12 GB 8 GB
System memory 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB 0 GB
Storage 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB 40 GB -

The CPU and system memory rows show zero because this page knows the card and nothing else.

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Radeon RX 6600

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Questions

Will a Radeon RX 6600 run Fortnite?
The Radeon RX 6600 lands 400% above what Fortnite asks at minimum and 9% below the 11 it would need for recommended. Above that the graphics card is what stops it.
Is 8 GB of video memory enough for Fortnite?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 8 GB of video memory does in Fortnite.

More on this card: what the Radeon RX 6600 runs across every game we track.