AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Price

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$ 369.99

$ 294.49

$ 75.50 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

8233 points

47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

191 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

95 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

139 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

75 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9727 points

208% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3149 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

3690.41 points

245% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

126840 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

120026 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

2280 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

2497 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

256 GB/s

448 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

145 W

10% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

38% slightly higher pixel rate

119.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

299.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3840

87% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

6% slightly more texture mapping units

120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

90th of 597

51st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2025 May

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 XT vs GeForce RTX 5060 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 beats the Radeon RX 6600 XT in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5060 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 XT has a slightly 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 5060 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 XT at 160 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 over the Radeon RX 6600 XT.