AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 369.99

$ 349.00

$ 20.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

114% significantly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9727 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4904 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

112% significantly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

83409 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

41242 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

109165 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

56001 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

1607 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

1845 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

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

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

130 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

180% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

104% significantly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.6 TFLOPS

103% significantly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

45% significantly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

45% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

90th of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6600 XT vs Radeon RX 5500 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5500 XT in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 XT at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 XT.