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AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs RX 580

Radeon RX 6600
VS
Radeon RX 580
AMD Radeon RX 6600
Navi 23
AMD Radeon RX 580
Polaris 20

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600 with 1792 shaders against the 4 years and 7 months older RX 580 that utilizes 2304 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
RX 6600
31
RX 580
15
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
RX 6600
28
RX 580
24
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
RX 6600
22
RX 580
14
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
RX 6600
50
RX 580
24
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
RX 6600
29
RX 580
18

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5
42.2
(Average)
Value Index
48.2
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 580 over RX 6600
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.4x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.4x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 66 vs 27 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • 44% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.9 vs 6.2 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 28 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 43% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (58K vs 40K)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 580
  • Has 29% more shading units (2304 vs 1792)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6600
vs
RX 580

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
144
78
66
43
76
39
31
17
The Witcher 3
124
104
71
39
50
41
22
12
Counter-Strike 2
197
140
97
50
74
55
38
15
Far Cry 6
110
95
70
41
59
49
35
17
Hogwarts Legacy
74
65
46
24
34
26
20
9
CoD: Modern Warfare III
100
96
64
40
48
42
27
15
Ghost of Tsushima
84
65
49
27
33
23
19
10
Cyberpunk 2077
79
67
43
21
33
27
16
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
131
117
84
40
60
52
32
15
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 52
1080p Ultra 92 39
1440p Ultra 66 27
4K Ultra 36 13
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 +144%
10212
RX 580
4183
Time Spy 10397 4354
Solar Bay 45002 -
Port Royal 5819 527
Fire Strike 26481 14980
Wild Life Extreme 19820 8907
Night Raid 98330 56859
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6600 +43%
58048
RX 580
40514
Background Blur 104.1 img/sec 59.5 img/sec
Face Detection 79.7 img/sec 33.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.05 Gpixels/sec 1.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.61 Gpixels/sec 3.1 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.59 Gpixels/sec 2.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.64 Gpixels/sec 0.33 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 257.8 Gpixels/sec 161.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7635.3 FPS 5395.1 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
4786
RX 580
n/a

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6600 +71%
15044
RX 580
8782
G2D Mark 895 770
DirectX 11 153 FPS 60 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 43 FPS
GPU Compute 6443 Ops/s 3409 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 15721 & 33466 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6600 +147%
966.59
RX 580
391.86
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1115 & 91 samples
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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 +60%
12643
RX 580
7905
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6600 +85%
15089
RX 580
8166
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6600 +69%
9547
RX 580
5642
Image Classification (SP) 5441 3143
Image Segmentation (HP) 6810 3955
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15043 7872
Face Detection (HP) 19066 11922
Pose Estimation (Q) 58821 41162
Text Classification (SP) 1943 1199
Machine Translation (HP) 2928 1773
Object Detection (SP) 4309 3620
Depth Estimation (Q) 23470 13995
Style Transfer (SP) 132475 84083
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600 and RX 580

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 13, 2021 April 18, 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $229
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 4.0
GPU Codename Navi 23 Polaris 20
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 - GeForce GTX 1060
Successor - Radeon RX 7600 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i5 8500 or above
Desktop GPU rating (68th and 83rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1626 MHz 1257 MHz
Boost Clock 2491 MHz 1340 MHz
Shading Units 1792 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 28 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 16KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 159 GPixel/s 43 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 279 GTexel/s 193 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6600 +44%
8.9 TFLOPS
RX 580
6.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 132 W 185 W
Manufacturing TSMC GlobalFoundries
Fabrication Process 7 nm 14 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 232 mm²
Transistor Count 11 billion 5 billion
Transistor Density 46.41 MTr/mm² 21.55 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6600
224 GB/s
RX 580 +14%
256 GB/s

API

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

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58 (92.1%)
5 (7.9%)
Total votes: 63

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