AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.5x more boost clock speed: 2589 MHz vs 1018 MHz
152.1x more texture fill rate: 331.4 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 160 Watt vs 500 Watt
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1250 MHz
Around 92% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16488 vs 8599
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 911 vs 756

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 Jul 2021 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	2589 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	331.4 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	16488 vs 8599
PassMark - G2D Mark	911 vs 756

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

2.8x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2048

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2048

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

16488

8599

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

911

756

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	16488	8599
PassMark - G2D Mark	911	756
Geekbench - OpenCL	82495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	706.665
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3728
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3367
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3728
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3367
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1807	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Navi 23 XT	Vesuvius
Launch date	30 Jul 2021	29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$379	$1,499
Place in performance rating	191	190
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2589 MHz	1018 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	1968 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	662.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	21.21 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.60 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	165.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	331.4 GTexel/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	160 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	40 mm (1.6 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	190 mm (7.5 inches)	307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Width	110 mm (4.3 inches)
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12.2	12
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)