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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs RX 590

Radeon RX 6600 XT
VS
Radeon RX 590
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Navi 23
AMD Radeon RX 590
Polaris 30

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600 XT with 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 9 months older RX 590 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
8 GB GDDR5
22.8
(Mediocre)
Value Index
36.2
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 590 over RX 6600 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 95%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 59 vs 30 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • 49% higher maximum theoretical performance (10.6 vs 7.1 TFLOPS)
  • Ray-tracing support with 32 dedicated RT cores
  • Achieves 84% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (84K vs 45K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6600 XT
vs
RX 590

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
135
76
61
40
80
42
33
20
The Witcher 3
116
99
64
37
58
46
29
15
Counter-Strike 2
184
129
90
47
92
66
42
20
Far Cry 6
102
91
67
34
61
53
38
19
Hogwarts Legacy
69
59
40
20
37
29
22
10
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
87
58
36
51
43
31
16
Ghost of Tsushima
75
58
43
22
36
26
18
9
Cyberpunk 2077
71
63
37
15
33
33
18
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
122
110
75
35
65
56
35
16
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 108 57
1080p Ultra 86 44
1440p Ultra 59 30
4K Ultra 32 15
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 +95%
8993
RX 590
4613
Time Spy 9637 4778
Solar Bay 37690 -
Port Royal 4642 -
Fire Strike 28663 16527
Wild Life Extreme 17389 9737
Night Raid 114625 62043
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 +84%
84088
RX 590
45783
Background Blur 208 img/sec 69 img/sec
Face Detection 114.6 img/sec 38.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.91 Gpixels/sec 1.75 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.71 Gpixels/sec 3.31 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.38 Gpixels/sec 3.31 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.94 Gpixels/sec 0.38 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 306 Gpixels/sec 180.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11198.1 FPS 6238 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
5012
RX 590
n/a

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6600 XT +77%
16440
RX 590
9277
G2D Mark 914 789
DirectX 11 164 FPS 65 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 45 FPS
GPU Compute 7383 Ops/s 3732 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 7100 & 4365 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6600 XT +118%
1065.25
RX 590
487.92
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 700 & 1 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 XT +69%
15318
RX 590
9064
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6600 XT +78%
17737
RX 590
9971
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6600 XT +75%
11021
RX 590
6293
Image Classification (SP) 6815 3307
Image Segmentation (HP) 8295 4895
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18041 9072
Face Detection (HP) 21268 12467
Pose Estimation (Q) 71311 43468
Text Classification (SP) 1967 1547
Machine Translation (HP) 3539 2504
Object Detection (SP) 6006 3746
Depth Estimation (Q) 28767 15075
Style Transfer (SP) 169389 96813
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600 XT and RX 590

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released July 30, 2021 November 15, 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $379 $279
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 4.0
GPU Codename Navi 23 Polaris 30
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 - GeForce GTX 1060
Successor - Radeon RX 9060 XT -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600 or above - Intel Core i5 8500 or above
Desktop GPU rating (66th and 80th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1968 MHz 1469 MHz
Boost Clock 2589 MHz 1545 MHz
Shading Units 2048 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 32 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 166 GPixel/s 49 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 331 GTexel/s 222 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6600 XT +49%
10.6 TFLOPS
RX 590
7.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 160 W 175 W
Manufacturing TSMC GlobalFoundries
Fabrication Process 7 nm 12 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 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6600 XT
256 GB/s
RX 590
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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Total votes: 6

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