AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Radeon RX 6600

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Radeon RX 6600 (29/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent
NanoReview Score 85.0 Very Good
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good
Efficiency 51.0 Below Average
Gaming 31.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit)
Bus 128-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) RDNA 2.0
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Fire Strike 26481
Night Raid 98330
Port Royal 5819
Solar Bay 45002
Time Spy 10397
Wild Life Extreme 19820

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
DLSS No
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
1080p High 116
1080p Ultra 92
1440p Ultra 66
4K Ultra 36
CoD: Modern Warfare III 100966440
Counter-Strike 2 1971409750
Cyberpunk 2077 79674321
Far Cry 6 110957041
Forza Horizon 5 144786643
Ghost of Tsushima 84654927
Hogwarts Legacy 74654624
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1311178440
The Witcher 3 1241047139

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 23470
Face Detection (HP) 19066
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 5441
Image Segmentation (HP) 6810
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15043
Machine Translation (HP) 2928
Object Detection (SP) 4309
Pose Estimation (Q) 58821
Style Transfer (SP) 132475
Text Classification (SP) 1943

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
API OpenCL
Background Blur 104.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.61 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 79.7 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.64 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.59 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.05 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7635.3 FPS
Stereo Matching 257.8 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) RDNA 2.0
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename Navi 23
Launch price (MSRP) $329
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 3060
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 12400or above
Released October 13, 2021
Segment Mid-range
Successor -Radeon RX 7600
Vendor Amd

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Base Clock 1626 MHz
Boost Clock 2491 MHz
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 28
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64
Shading Units 1792
Tensor Cores No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
DirectX 11 153 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS
G2D Mark 895
GPU Compute 6450 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Die Size 237 mm²
Fabrication Process 7 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 132 W
Transistor Count 11 billion
Transistor Density 46.41 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 6600
Pixel Fill Rate 159 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 279 GTexel/s

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