AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Price

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$ 499.99

$ 360.99

$ 139.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

21 %

54 %

157% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

111 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

83 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

41 FPS

97 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

47 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4144

9708

134% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415

83409

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522

82559

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947

64460

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

43265

106828

146% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732

81591

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947

97618

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

1968 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

2589 MHz

104% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

6% slightly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

165.7 Gigapixels/s

309% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

331.4 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

10.6 TFLOPS

81% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

12% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

12% slightly more texture mapping units

128

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

115th of 549

39th of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon 400 Series

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

June 2016

November 2021

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 RX 480 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 480 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 XT at 160 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 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 480.