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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs 5600 XT

Radeon RX 6600 XT
VS
Radeon RX 5600 XT
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Navi 23
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Navi 10

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB with 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 7 months older 5600 XT 6 GB 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
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
22.8
(Mediocre)
Value Index
13.0
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 5600 XT over RX 6600 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600 XT
  • Performs better (up to 29%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 47% higher maximum theoretical performance (10.6 vs 7.2 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 28% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 59 vs 46 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 32 dedicated RT cores
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Achieves 26% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (84K vs 66K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6600 XT
vs
RX 5600 XT

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
135
76
61
40
110
61
48
28
The Witcher 3
116
99
64
37
94
75
48
28
Counter-Strike 2
184
129
90
47
154
108
75
36
Far Cry 6
102
91
67
34
89
76
54
29
Hogwarts Legacy
69
59
40
20
56
44
34
15
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
87
58
36
72
67
43
28
Ghost of Tsushima
75
58
43
22
60
48
32
15
Cyberpunk 2077
71
63
37
15
57
49
25
12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
122
110
75
35
101
88
56
31
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 108 88
1080p Ultra 86 68
1440p Ultra 59 46
4K Ultra 32 25
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 XT +29%
8993
RX 5600 XT
6991
Time Spy 9637 7631
Solar Bay 37690 -
Port Royal 4642 -
Fire Strike 28663 22323
Wild Life Extreme 17389 14672
Night Raid 114625 86634
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6600 XT +26%
84088
RX 5600 XT
66629
Background Blur 208 img/sec 123.2 img/sec
Face Detection 114.6 img/sec 71.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.91 Gpixels/sec 2.85 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.71 Gpixels/sec 4.1 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.38 Gpixels/sec 3.48 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.94 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 306 Gpixels/sec 253.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11198.1 FPS 7670.6 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 XT +68%
5012
RX 5600 XT
2988

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6600 XT +23%
16440
RX 5600 XT
13384
G2D Mark 914 871
DirectX 11 164 FPS 95 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 52 FPS
GPU Compute 7383 Ops/s 6184 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 7100 & 4842 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6600 XT +72%
1065.25
RX 5600 XT
618.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 700 & 281 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6600 XT
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Radeon RX 5600 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL70675
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Steel Nomad Light7074
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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 XT +22%
15318
RX 5600 XT
12529
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6600 XT +22%
17737
RX 5600 XT
14594
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6600 XT +17%
11021
RX 5600 XT
9434
Image Classification (SP) 6815 5459
Image Segmentation (HP) 8295 6448
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18041 15013
Face Detection (HP) 21268 17318
Pose Estimation (Q) 71311 62592
Text Classification (SP) 1967 1533
Machine Translation (HP) 3539 3771
Object Detection (SP) 6006 5601
Depth Estimation (Q) 28767 22988
Style Transfer (SP) 169389 120386
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600 XT and 5600 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released July 30, 2021 January 21, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $379 $279
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 1.0
GPU Codename Navi 23 Navi 10
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 - GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Successor - Radeon RX 9060 XT - Radeon RX 9060 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600 or above - Intel Core i5 9500 or above
Desktop GPU rating (66th and 70th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1968 MHz 1130 MHz
Boost Clock 2589 MHz 1560 MHz
Shading Units 2048 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 32 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 2MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 166 GPixel/s 100 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 331 GTexel/s 225 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6600 XT +47%
10.6 TFLOPS
RX 5600 XT
7.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 160 W 150 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 7 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 251 mm²
Transistor Count 11 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 46.41 MTr/mm² 39.84 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6600 XT
256 GB/s
RX 5600 XT +13%
288 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

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
5 (71.4%)
2 (28.6%)
Total votes: 7

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