AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (2815MHz vs 2589MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 160W)

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 XT +83%

10.6 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Radeon RX 6600 XT +94%

9579

Blender

Radeon RX 6500 XT

571

Radeon RX 6600 XT +109%

1196

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Radeon RX 6600 XT +153%

38

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 6600 XT +132%

72

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Radeon RX 6600 XT +153%

119

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Radeon RX 6600 XT +107%

29

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Radeon RX 6600 XT +89%

36

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Radeon RX 6600 XT +87%

58

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Radeon RX 6600 XT +114%

58

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Radeon RX 6600 XT +113%

111

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

Radeon RX 6600 XT +108%

144

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

Radeon RX 6600 XT +103%

61

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

Radeon RX 6600 XT +90%

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

Radeon RX 6600 XT +55%

149

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

Radeon RX 6600 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 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

1968 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

2589 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

16

RT Cores

32

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.7 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

331.4 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.21 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.60 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

662.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

Navi 23

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XT (215-130000006)

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

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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