AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6600

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 200.88

$ 198.12 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1280 points

4302 points

236% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

30 FPS

86 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

19 FPS

65 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

78 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

10 FPS

37 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2043 points

8131 points

297% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

827 MHz

1626 MHz

96% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

933 MHz

2491 MHz

166% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

240 GB/s

7% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

132 W

89% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

29.86 Gigapixels/s

159.4 Gigapixels/s

433% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

104.5 Gigatexels/s

279 Gigatexels/s

166% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.34 TFLOPS

8.93 TFLOPS

167% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

Identical

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

Identical

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 586

118th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX 6600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6600 beats the Radeon R9 280 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6600 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 has a significantly lower TDP at 132 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6600 is faster than the Radeon R9 280.