AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 3, 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

4945% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

99 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9727 points

2249% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

414 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

2430% significantly higher Blender score

42.23 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points

1778% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4396 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points

1211% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4915 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

109165 points

2136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4880 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

1985% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3968 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

1507% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

556% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz

135% significantly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

15 W

966% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

3665% significantly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

2410% significantly higher texture rate

13.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

966% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

966% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

90th of 586

501st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2019 November

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 Vega 3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 3 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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. 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 Radeon Vega 3 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 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 Vega 3.