AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

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

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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

6305 points

12% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

136 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

81 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

114 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

62 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

3522.98 points

229% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

104383 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

98514 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

106% significantly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

1455 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

384 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

45 W

255% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

137% significantly higher pixel rate

69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

119% significantly higher texture rate

151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3328

62% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

104

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

77th 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 Laptop comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6600 XT in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6600 XT 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 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop is better than the Radeon RX 6600 XT.