AMD Radeon RX 6600M vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6600M 8 GB with 28 pipelines and 1792 shaders against the 1 year and 9 months newer GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4050 Mobile over RX 6600M
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600M
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Performs slightly better (up to 13%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 55% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.1 vs 7.8 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 43% more shading units (2560 vs 1792)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
113
60
50
31
107
66
56
35
The Witcher 3
98
78
53
30
117
91
67
34
Counter-Strike 2
161
110
78
37
167
126
88
43
Far Cry 6
87
75
57
28
87
79
59
32
Hogwarts Legacy
56
45
33
17
62
52
34
20
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
69
45
31
75
68
44
30
Ghost of Tsushima
60
49
35
19
57
45
33
17
Cyberpunk 2077
58
51
29
13
61
57
34
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
103
90
61
31
98
90
62
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 90 92
1080p Ultra 70 75
1440p Ultra 49 53
4K Ultra 26 28
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
7010
7909
Time Spy 8006 8212
Solar Bay 29953 35375
Port Royal 3880 4624
Fire Strike 23177 21909
Wild Life Extreme 14422 15492
Night Raid 94761 84848
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
71125
81436
Background Blur 176.1 img/sec 141.4 img/sec
Face Detection 102.4 img/sec 84.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.19 Gpixels/sec 3.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.1 Gpixels/sec 3.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.8 Gpixels/sec 3.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.78 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 313.2 Gpixels/sec 325.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8768.9 FPS 11008.8 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
4288
8249

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
13784
14217
G2D Mark 722 622
DirectX 11 136 FPS 129 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 60 FPS
GPU Compute 5566 Ops/s 5847 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1025 & 14311 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
902.36
2568.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 97 & 2080 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6600M
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343

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
14016
15570
GB6 ML Half Precision
16471
27160
GB6 ML Quantized
11065
12230
Image Classification (SP) 6355 6233
Image Segmentation (HP) 7183 16395
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16962 18240
Face Detection (HP) 20793 30758
Pose Estimation (Q) 65012 61300
Text Classification (SP) 2139 3124
Machine Translation (HP) 3411 4357
Object Detection (SP) 5102 7812
Depth Estimation (Q) 26194 29192
Style Transfer (SP) 139748 117759
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600M and GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 1, 2021 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 23 AD107 (GN21-X2)
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop - Radeon RX 7700S
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5600H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (74th and 66th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1489 MHz 1140-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1520-2177 MHz (configurable) 1605-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1792 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 28 20
Tensor Cores - 80
Ray-tracing Cores 28 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 97-139 GPixel/s 51-76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 170-244 GTexel/s 128-190 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
5.4-7.8 TFLOPS
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 50-100 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 5 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 11.06 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 46.67 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6600M +17%
224 GB/s
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4a

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