AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon RX 6600 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2491MHz vs 1709MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 132W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6600 +104%

8.928 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

4.375 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6600 +277%

34

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6600 +108%

71

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6600 +147%

126

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

51

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6600 +57%

44

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

28

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6600 +88%

98

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6600 +69%

127

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

75

Radeon RX 6600

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Oct 2021

Release Date

Oct 2018

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1626 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2491 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

159.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

279.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

17.86 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

8.928 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

558.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

GP104

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

16 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

132W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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