AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6600 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6600

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 36% higher core clock speed: 1626 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 62% higher boost clock speed: 2491 MHz vs 1536 MHz
  • 668.6x more texture fill rate: 279.0 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 132 Watt vs 295 Watt
Launch date 13 Oct 2021 vs 7 August 2017
Core clock speed 1626 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Boost clock speed 2491 MHz vs 1536 MHz
Texture fill rate 279.0 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 132 Watt vs 295 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

  • 2.3x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1792
  • Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Pipelines 4096 vs 1792
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6600
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

Name AMD Radeon RX 6600 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 15097
PassMark - G2D Mark 882
Geekbench - OpenCL 73020
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 260.061
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 5472.868
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 20.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 290.312
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1152.228
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 26778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 69225
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 26778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 69225
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1492

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6600 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 5.0
Code name Navi 23 XL Vega 10
Launch date 13 Oct 2021 7 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $549
Place in performance rating 38 not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2491 MHz 1536 MHz
Compute units 28
Core clock speed 1626 MHz 1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 558.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 17.86 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.928 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1792 4096
Pixel fill rate 159.4 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 279.0 GTexel/s 417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 132 Watt 295 Watt
Transistor count 11060 million 12,500 million
Floating-point performance 13,353 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI

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) 282 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 110 mm (4.3 inches)

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) 1890 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2