AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1836 points

4302 points

134% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

37 FPS

86 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

65 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

40 FPS

78 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

37 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3877 points

8131 points

109% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40609 points

76157 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

37797 points

61842 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34371 points

73158 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

45743 points

86589 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1168 MHz

1626 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1284 MHz

2491 MHz

94% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

Identical

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

132 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

41.09 Gigapixels/s

159.4 Gigapixels/s

287% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

164.4 Gigatexels/s

279 Gigatexels/s

69% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.26 TFLOPS

8.93 TFLOPS

69% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

14% slightly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

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

218th of 586

117th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

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

4.6

Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs Radeon RX 6600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 has a slightly 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 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 has a slightly lower TDP at 132 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6600 is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP.