AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 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

5600 points

2140% significantly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points

409% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16214 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points

225% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19779 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

502% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13742 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

628% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12796 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

131% significantly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

40% slightly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

90th of 586

398th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Radeon RX 6600 XT vs Radeon HD 8950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6600 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6600 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 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 Radeon RX 6600 XT over the Radeon HD 8950.