Radeon RX 6600M vs Radeon 890M

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon RX 6600M 8 GB with 28 pipelines and 1792 shaders against the 3 years and 1 month newer Radeon 890M that utilizes 16 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 Radeon 890M over RX 6600M
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.6x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 49 vs 19 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • 32% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.8 vs 5.9 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 66% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (71K vs 42K)
  • Has 75% more shading units (1792 vs 1024)
Reasons to consider the Radeon 890M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
113
60
50
31
57
30
25
14
The Witcher 3
98
78
53
30
36
32
18
-
Counter-Strike 2
161
110
78
37
51
34
25
10
Far Cry 6
87
75
57
28
43
37
23
13
Hogwarts Legacy
56
45
33
17
25
17
14
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
69
45
31
39
34
22
14
Ghost of Tsushima
60
49
35
19
25
17
12
-
Cyberpunk 2077
58
51
29
13
23
23
12
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
103
90
61
31
43
34
21
10
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 90 38
1080p Ultra 70 29
1440p Ultra 49 19
4K Ultra 26 10
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 6600M +120%
7010
Time Spy 8006 3305
Solar Bay 29953 15412
Port Royal 3880 1795
Fire Strike 23177 8908
Wild Life Extreme 14422 6884
Night Raid 94761 37640
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6600M +66%
71125
42932
Background Blur 176.1 img/sec 98.6 img/sec
Face Detection 102.4 img/sec 42 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.19 Gpixels/sec 1.25 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.1 Gpixels/sec 1.6 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.8 Gpixels/sec 1.69 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.78 Gpixels/sec 0.55 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 313.2 Gpixels/sec 214.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8768.9 FPS 7757.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

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

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6600M +71%
13784
G2D Mark 722 979
DirectX 11 136 FPS 73 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 37 FPS
GPU Compute 5566 Ops/s 4162 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1025 & 2175 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6600M +199%
902.36
302.04
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 97 & 90 samples

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 6600M +46%
14016
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6600M +9%
16471
15157
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6600M +56%
11065
Image Classification (SP) 6355 3563
Image Segmentation (HP) 7183 6170
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16962 10762
Face Detection (HP) 20793 13773
Pose Estimation (Q) 65012 37861
Text Classification (SP) 2139 2572
Machine Translation (HP) 3411 4699
Object Detection (SP) 5102 2845
Depth Estimation (Q) 26194 17260
Style Transfer (SP) 139748 86751
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6600M and Radeon 890M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Integrated
Released June 1, 2021 June 3, 2024
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 3.5
GPU Codename Navi 23 Strix Point
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop - Intel Arc 140V
Successor - - Radeon 8060S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5600H or above - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 or above
Used in CPUs - - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 475
- AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
Laptop GPU ranking (74th and 79th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1489 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 1520-2177 MHz (configurable) 2900 MHz
Shading Units 1792 1024
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112 64
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 28 16
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 28 16
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 97-139 GPixel/s 93 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 170-244 GTexel/s 186 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6600M +32%
5.4-7.8 TFLOPS
5.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 50-100 W (configurable) 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 233 mm²
Transistor Count 11.06 billion 34 billion
Transistor Density 46.67 MTr/mm² 145.92 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 100°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 System Shared
Memory Size 8 GB -
Memory Clock 1750 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps -
Bus 128-bit -
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
CUDA - None
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 2.1

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