AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce RTX 2060
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AMD Radeon RX 6600
Navi 23
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060
TU106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600 8 GB with 1792 shaders against the 2 years and 9 months older GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB that utilizes 30 pipelines and 1920 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600
- Performs better (up to 38%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- Shows 32% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 66 vs 50 FPS
- 37% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.9 vs 6.5 TFLOPS)
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 50% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 224 GB/s
- Achieves 36% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (78K vs 58K)
- Features 240 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 144 78 66 43 |
99 62 49 35 |
| The Witcher 3 | 124 104 71 39 |
107 86 62 34 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 197 140 97 50 |
157 117 82 41 |
| Far Cry 6 | 110 95 70 41 |
84 74 57 29 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 65 46 24 |
59 47 33 15 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 100 96 64 40 |
69 59 44 30 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 84 65 49 27 |
53 42 30 18 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 79 67 43 21 |
58 52 32 13 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 131 117 84 40 |
92 85 58 33 |
| 1080p High | 116 | 86 |
| 1080p Ultra | 92 | 69 |
| 1440p Ultra | 66 | 50 |
| 4K Ultra | 36 | 28 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10397 | 7564 |
| Solar Bay | 45002 | 34157 |
| Port Royal | 5819 | 4133 |
| Fire Strike | 26481 | 19777 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19820 | 15551 |
| Night Raid | 98330 | 85132 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 104.1 img/sec | 144.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 79.7 img/sec | 75.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.05 Gpixels/sec | 3.08 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 2.61 Gpixels/sec | 4.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.59 Gpixels/sec | 4.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.64 Gpixels/sec | 0.93 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 257.8 Gpixels/sec | 354.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7635.3 FPS | 8559.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 895 | 743 |
| DirectX 11 | 153 FPS | 112 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 51 FPS | 53 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6443 Ops/s | 5427 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6600
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 2060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-03-15 (MrRayeen) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 82889 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 5441 | 5453 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 6810 | 12449 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 15043 | 11020 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 19066 | 24511 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 58821 | 47746 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1943 | 2000 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2928 | 3360 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 4309 | 6343 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 23470 | 20909 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 132475 | 101870 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 2060General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | October 13, 2021 | January 15, 2019 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $329 | $349 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Turing |
| GPU Codename | Navi 23 | TU106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3060 | - Radeon RX 5600 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 7600 | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12400 or above | - Intel Core i5 9600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (68th and 69th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1626 MHz | 1365 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2491 MHz | 1680 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 1920 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 112 | 120 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 30 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 240 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 28 | 30 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 159 GPixel/s | 81 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 279 GTexel/s | 202 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 132 W | 160 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 237 mm² | 445 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 11 billion | 10 billion |
| Transistor Density | 46.41 MTr/mm² | 22.47 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
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 | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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