AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD Radeon RX 6600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (2815MHz vs 2491MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 132W)

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 +54%

8.928 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

Radeon RX 6600 +64%

8083

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Radeon RX 6600 +126%

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 6600 +129%

71

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Radeon RX 6600 +168%

126

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Radeon RX 6600 +71%

24

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Radeon RX 6600 +63%

31

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 6600 +61%

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Radeon RX 6600 +62%

44

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Radeon RX 6600 +88%

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

Radeon RX 6600 +84%

127

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

Radeon RX 6600 +100%

60

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

Radeon RX 6600 +53%

66

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

Radeon RX 6600 +89%

182

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6600

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2021

Navi II

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1626 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

2491 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

28

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

159.4 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

279.0 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.86 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.928 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

558.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Navi 23

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

132W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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