AMD Radeon RX 590 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (2491MHz vs 1545MHz)

Lower TDP (132W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 +25%

8.928 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4760

Radeon RX 6600 +69%

8081

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590

24

Radeon RX 6600 +41%

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590

46

Radeon RX 6600 +54%

71

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590

71

Radeon RX 6600 +77%

126

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

39

Radeon RX 6600 +12%

44

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

74

Radeon RX 6600 +32%

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

101

Radeon RX 6600 +25%

127

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

42

Radeon RX 6600 +42%

60

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590 +1%

67

Radeon RX 6600

66

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

110

Radeon RX 6600 +65%

182

Radeon RX 590

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Radeon RX 6600

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Oct 2021

Polaris

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1626 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

2491 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

28

2304

Shading Units

1792

144

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

28

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

159.4 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

279.0 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.86 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.928 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

558.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

Navi 23

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

132W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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