AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 XT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2589MHz vs 1545MHz)

Lower TDP (160W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6600 XT +48%

10.6 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6600 XT +101%

9579

Radeon RX 590

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +58%

38

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +56%

72

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +67%

119

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +48%

58

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +50%

111

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +42%

144

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +45%

61

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +22%

82

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6600 XT +35%

149

Radeon RX 590

110

Radeon RX 6600 XT

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Jul 2021

Release Date

Nov 2018

Navi II

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1968 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

2589 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

36

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

32

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

32 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

165.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

331.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

21.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

10.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

662.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

Polaris 30

Navi 23 XT (215-130000006)

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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