GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 6600

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 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 GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
Efficiency 48.0 Poor 51.0 Below Average WINNER
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 31.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
Fire Strike 87569 26481
Night Raid 206648 98330
Port Royal 38202 5819
Solar Bay 236689 45002
Time Spy 46873 10397
Wild Life Extreme 108751 19820

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
CUDA 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
1080p High 299 116
1080p Ultra 254 92
1440p Ultra 207 66
4K Ultra 125 36
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 100966440
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 1971409750
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 79674321
Far Cry 6 237202190121 110957041
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 144786643
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 84654927
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 74654624
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 1311178440
The Witcher 3 364327237123 1241047139

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 23470
Face Detection (HP) 114685 19066
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 5441
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 6810
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 15043
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 2928
Object Detection (SP) 27802 4309
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 58821
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 132475
Text Classification (SP) 4464 1943

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 104.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 2.61 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 79.7 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.64 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 2.59 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 2.05 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 7635.3 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 257.8 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Navi 23
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $329
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i5 12400or above
Released January 7, 2025 October 13, 2021
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 3060
Successor -Radeon RX 7600

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1626 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2491 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 28
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 64
Shading Units 21760 1792
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 112

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
Bus 512-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
DirectX 11 341 FPS 153 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 51 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 895
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 6450 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
Die Size 750 mm² 237 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 7 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 132 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 11 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 46.41 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 159 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 279 GTexel/s

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