AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6600

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4321 points

4339 points

0.42% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

87 FPS

92 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

65 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

90 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

50 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

969.87 points

2969.98 points

206% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

73158 points

85838 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86589 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

80080 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1626 MHz

59% significantly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2491 MHz

66% significantly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

384 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

132 W

50 W

163% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

159.4 Gigapixels/s

232% significantly higher pixel rate

48 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

279 Gigatexels/s

132% significantly higher texture rate

120 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

2560

42% many more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

40% slightly more texture mapping units

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

116th of 597

115th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 October

2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 6600 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6600 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 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 at 132 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 GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop is faster than the Radeon RX 6600.