AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600 with 1792 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months newer GeForce RTX 4060 that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 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
8 GB GDDR6
42.2
(Average)
Value Index
41.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 over RX 6600
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • 70% higher maximum theoretical performance (15.1 vs 8.9 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Achieves 84% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (106K vs 58K)
  • Has 21% higher memory bandwidth: 272 vs 224 GB/s
  • Has 71% more shading units (3072 vs 1792)
  • Features 96 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
vs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
144
78
66
43
128
78
66
47
The Witcher 3
124
104
71
39
143
117
82
44
Counter-Strike 2
197
140
97
50
208
157
111
58
Far Cry 6
110
95
70
41
105
98
76
45
Hogwarts Legacy
74
65
46
24
78
65
47
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
100
96
64
40
98
90
64
43
Ghost of Tsushima
84
65
49
27
73
61
45
27
Cyberpunk 2077
79
67
43
21
82
75
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
131
117
84
40
128
119
85
46
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 116
1080p Ultra 92 96
1440p Ultra 66 69
4K Ultra 36 40
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
10212
RTX 4060 +5%
10683
Time Spy 10397 10615
Solar Bay 45002 49340
Port Royal 5819 6054
Fire Strike 26481 28540
Wild Life Extreme 19820 20610
Night Raid 98330 121368
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
58048
RTX 4060 +84%
106633
Background Blur 104.1 img/sec 186.9 img/sec
Face Detection 79.7 img/sec 112.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.05 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.61 Gpixels/sec 5.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.59 Gpixels/sec 4.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.64 Gpixels/sec 1.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 257.8 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7635.3 FPS 14935.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
4786
RTX 4060 +122%
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
15044
RTX 4060 +30%
19485
G2D Mark 895 1036
DirectX 11 153 FPS 174 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 76 FPS
GPU Compute 6443 Ops/s 9150 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 15721 & 28684 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
966.59
RTX 4060 +224%
3132.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1115 & 2092 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6600
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606

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
12643
RTX 4060 +41%
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
15089
RTX 4060 +94%
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
9547
RTX 4060 +49%
14234
Image Classification (SP) 5441 7696
Image Segmentation (HP) 6810 13706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15043 23289
Face Detection (HP) 19066 31126
Pose Estimation (Q) 58821 78361
Text Classification (SP) 1943 3315
Machine Translation (HP) 2928 3491
Object Detection (SP) 4309 9386
Depth Estimation (Q) 23470 36778
Style Transfer (SP) 132475 148120
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 4060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 13, 2021 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 23 AD107
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 7600 - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (68th and 54th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1626 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 2491 MHz 2460 MHz
Shading Units 1792 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 24
Tensor Cores No 96
Ray-tracing Cores 28 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 159 GPixel/s 118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 279 GTexel/s 236 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
8.9 TFLOPS
RTX 4060 +70%
15.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 132 W 115 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 11 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 46.41 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps -
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
224 GB/s
RTX 4060 +21%
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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