AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points

4302 points

625% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

86 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

65 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

78 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

37 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

8131 points

470% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

969.87 points

994% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

76157 points

769% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

61842 points

590% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10718 points

100044 points

833% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

73158 points

686% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

86589 points

659% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1626 MHz

441% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

2491 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

193% significantly lower TDP

132 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

159.4 Gigapixels/s

896% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

279 Gigatexels/s

335% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

8.93 TFLOPS

336% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1792

250% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

118th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2021 October

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 Vega 8 vs Radeon RX 6600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6600 beats the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6600 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 also 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 at 132 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 over the Radeon Vega 8.