AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 629.99
$ 200.88
$ 429.11 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points
228% significantly better overall score
4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS
200 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
86 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS
143 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
65 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS
179 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS
86 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points
8131 points
100% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points
155% significantly higher Blender score
969.87 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

159528 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
75685 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
76157 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
61842 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

208130 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
100044 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points
129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
73158 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
86589 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz
12% slightly higher core clock speed
1626 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz
2491 MHz
10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
100% significantly more memory
8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s
128% significantly higher memory bandwidth
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
132 W
127% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s
80% significantly higher pixel rate
159.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s
158% significantly higher texture rate
279 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS
158% significantly better floating point performance
8.93 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120
185% significantly more shading units
1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
185% significantly more texture mapping units
112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
100% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586
118th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
2021 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6900 XT vs Radeon RX 6600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6600 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6900 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 6600 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6900 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 has a significantly lower TDP at 132 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is better than the Radeon RX 6600.

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