AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 200.88
$ 2564.85 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4302 points
42789 points
894% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

86 FPS
1019 FPS
933 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

65 FPS
503 FPS
438 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
740 FPS
662 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
425 FPS
389 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8131 points
14480 points
78% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

969.87 points
14992.38 points
1445% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

73158 points
383325 points
423% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86589 points
380401 points
339% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1626 MHz
2017 MHz
24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2491 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed
2407 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
32 GiB
300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
512 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

132 W
335% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

159.4 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
165% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792
21760
1114% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
680
507% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
176
175% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 586
1st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 October
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce RTX 5090 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the Radeon RX 6600 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5090 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 6600 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 has a significantly lower TDP at 132 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 over the Radeon RX 6600.

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