AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 179.10
$ 20.09 slightly less expensive
$ 199.19

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

22 %
43 %
95% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

46 FPS
85 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS
65 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS
77 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
36 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4333
8150
88% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

419.17
874.75
108% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

44601
75685
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182
76157
54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191
61842
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

52090
98234
88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43718
70222
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

50852
78329
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz
1626 MHz
29% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz
2491 MHz
85% 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

256 GB/s
14% slightly higher memory bandwidth
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W
132 W
40% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s
159.4 Gigapixels/s
271% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s
279 Gigatexels/s
44% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.18 TFLOPS
8.93 TFLOPS
44% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
28% slightly more shading units
1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
28% slightly more texture mapping units
112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 550
56th of 550

Family

The product line

Radeon 500 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

April 2017
October 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

Radeon RX 580 vs Radeon RX 6600 comparison

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

Our database shows that 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. 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 6600 has a slightly lower TDP at 132 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 is better than the Radeon RX 580.

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