AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600 8 GB with 1792 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB that utilizes 22 pipelines and 1408 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
6 GB GDDR6
42.2
(Average)
Value Index
35.7
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1660 SUPER over RX 6600
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600
  • Performs significantly better (up to 80%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 65% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 66 vs 40 FPS
  • 78% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.9 vs 5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 28 dedicated RT cores
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 27% more shading units (1792 vs 1408)
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
  • Has 50% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 224 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
144
78
66
43
86
51
43
25
The Witcher 3
124
104
71
39
83
65
47
26
Counter-Strike 2
197
140
97
50
133
93
68
29
Far Cry 6
110
95
70
41
70
62
46
24
Hogwarts Legacy
74
65
46
24
46
36
26
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
100
96
64
40
55
44
31
19
Ghost of Tsushima
84
65
49
27
41
34
26
12
Cyberpunk 2077
79
67
43
21
44
40
22
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
131
117
84
40
77
71
47
23
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 71
1080p Ultra 92 55
1440p Ultra 66 40
4K Ultra 36 20
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6600 +80%
10212
Time Spy 10397 6042
Solar Bay 45002 19265
Port Royal 5819 1547
Fire Strike 26481 16189
Wild Life Extreme 19820 12334
Night Raid 98330 74735
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
58048
67074
Background Blur 104.1 img/sec 122.5 img/sec
Face Detection 79.7 img/sec 68.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.05 Gpixels/sec 2.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.61 Gpixels/sec 3.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.59 Gpixels/sec 3.21 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.64 Gpixels/sec 0.86 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 257.8 Gpixels/sec 273.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7635.3 FPS 8476.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6600 +46%
4786

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6600 +19%
15044
G2D Mark 895 807
DirectX 11 153 FPS 104 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 50 FPS
GPU Compute 6443 Ops/s 5033 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 15721 & 22253 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6600 +26%
966.59
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1115 & 886 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6600
No benchmark results yet
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-02 (TEST)Cinebench 20243271

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6600 +23%
12643
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6600 +85%
15089
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6600 +29%
9547
Image Classification (SP) 5441 4278
Image Segmentation (HP) 6810 5856
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15043 9561
Face Detection (HP) 19066 9830
Pose Estimation (Q) 58821 36109
Text Classification (SP) 1943 1858
Machine Translation (HP) 2928 3286
Object Detection (SP) 4309 5151
Depth Estimation (Q) 23470 18021
Style Transfer (SP) 132475 73708
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 13, 2021 October 29, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $229
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
GPU Codename Navi 23 TU116
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 7600 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i5 9500 or above
Desktop GPU rating (68th and 75th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1626 MHz 1530 MHz
Boost Clock 2491 MHz 1785 MHz
Shading Units 1792 1408
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112 88
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 22
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 28 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 159 GPixel/s 86 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 279 GTexel/s 157 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6600 +78%
8.9 TFLOPS
5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 132 W 125 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 12 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 284 mm²
Transistor Count 11 billion 6 billion
Transistor Density 46.41 MTr/mm² 21.13 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
224 GB/s
336 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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