AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
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We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600 XT with 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER that utilizes 34 pipelines and 2176 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 XT
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- 47% higher maximum theoretical performance (10.6 vs 7.2 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 256 GB/s
- Features 272 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 135 76 61 40 |
108 68 58 36 |
| The Witcher 3 | 116 99 64 37 |
119 99 71 37 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 184 129 90 47 |
174 131 92 47 |
| Far Cry 6 | 102 91 67 34 |
94 82 65 35 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 69 59 40 20 |
64 52 38 21 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 95 87 58 36 |
79 70 51 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 75 58 43 22 |
60 47 37 22 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 71 63 37 15 |
66 61 36 14 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 122 110 75 35 |
102 93 68 34 |
| 1080p High | 108 | 96 |
| 1080p Ultra | 86 | 78 |
| 1440p Ultra | 59 | 57 |
| 4K Ultra | 32 | 31 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9637 | 8729 |
| Solar Bay | 37690 | 38528 |
| Port Royal | 4642 | 5061 |
| Fire Strike | 28663 | 22540 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 17389 | 17535 |
| Night Raid | 114625 | 92217 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 208 img/sec | 155.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 114.6 img/sec | 93.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.91 Gpixels/sec | 3.81 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.71 Gpixels/sec | 4.91 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.38 Gpixels/sec | 4.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.94 Gpixels/sec | 1.09 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 306 Gpixels/sec | 381.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 11198.1 FPS | 10550.4 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 914 | 857 |
| DirectX 11 | 164 FPS | 132 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 60 FPS | 61 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7383 Ops/s | 6668 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
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) | 6815 | 5952 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 8295 | 13581 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 18041 | 12282 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 21268 | 27779 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 71311 | 53249 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1967 | 2087 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3539 | 3660 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 6006 | 6977 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 28767 | 23707 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 169389 | 112439 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600 XT and GeForce RTX 2060 SUPERGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | July 30, 2021 | July 9, 2019 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $379 | $399 |
| 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 | - |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 9060 XT | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 13600 or above | - Intel Core i5 9600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (66th and 63rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1968 MHz | 1470 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2589 MHz | 1650 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2176 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 136 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 34 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 272 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | 34 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 4MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 166 GPixel/s | 106 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 331 GTexel/s | 224 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 160 W | 175 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 | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 256-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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