AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 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

4302 points
714% significantly better overall score
528 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

86 FPS
74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

65 FPS
54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76157 points
1438% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4950 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

73158 points
1377% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2491 MHz
176% significantly higher boost clock speed
900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
700% significantly more memory
1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 586
321st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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Radeon RX 6600 vs Radeon HD 6870 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6600 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6600 over the Radeon HD 6870.

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