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AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs RX 6600

Radeon RX 6800
VS
Radeon RX 6600
AMD Radeon RX 6800
Navi 21
AMD Radeon RX 6600
Navi 23

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6800 16 GB with 3840 shaders against the 1 year newer RX 6600 8 GB that utilizes 1792 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
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
64.8
(Average)
Value Index
42.2
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 6600 over RX 6800
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800
  • Performs significantly better (up to 42%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 82% higher maximum theoretical performance (16.2 vs 8.9 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 45% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 96 vs 66 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 512 vs 224 GB/s
  • Achieves 2.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (135K vs 58K)
  • Has 2.1x more shading units (3840 vs 1792)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6800
vs
RX 6600

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
175
114
95
66
144
78
66
43
The Witcher 3
172
148
108
57
124
104
71
39
Counter-Strike 2
265
193
131
75
197
140
97
50
Far Cry 6
146
129
106
61
110
95
70
41
Hogwarts Legacy
106
86
68
36
74
65
46
24
CoD: Modern Warfare III
146
135
97
63
100
96
64
40
Ghost of Tsushima
110
89
70
43
84
65
49
27
Cyberpunk 2077
113
98
65
32
79
67
43
21
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
179
168
122
63
131
117
84
40
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 157 116
1080p Ultra 129 92
1440p Ultra 96 66
4K Ultra 55 36
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 6800 +42%
14538
RX 6600
10212
Time Spy 16227 10397
Solar Bay 64715 45002
Port Royal 8145 5819
Fire Strike 44367 26481
Wild Life Extreme 29767 19820
Night Raid 142456 98330
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6800 +133%
135060
RX 6600
58048
Background Blur 298.6 img/sec 104.1 img/sec
Face Detection 186.2 img/sec 79.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.75 Gpixels/sec 2.05 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.68 Gpixels/sec 2.61 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.58 Gpixels/sec 2.59 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.16 Gpixels/sec 0.64 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 579 Gpixels/sec 257.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 18755.1 FPS 7635.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6800 +101%
9629
RX 6600
4786

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6800 +47%
22059
RX 6600
15052
G2D Mark 1002 895
DirectX 11 211 FPS 153 FPS
DirectX 12 90 FPS 51 FPS
GPU Compute 10751 Ops/s 6450 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 4876 & 15407 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6800 +96%
1892.86
RX 6600
966.59
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 739 & 1109 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 6800 +99%
25097
RX 6600
12643
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6800 +85%
27988
RX 6600
15089
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6800 +100%
19116
RX 6600
9547
Image Classification (SP) 11245 5441
Image Segmentation (HP) 13617 6810
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27747 15043
Face Detection (HP) 38124 19066
Pose Estimation (Q) 119493 58821
Text Classification (SP) 2425 1943
Machine Translation (HP) 5228 2928
Object Detection (SP) 11986 4309
Depth Estimation (Q) 46083 23470
Style Transfer (SP) 281860 132475
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6600

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released October 28, 2020 October 13, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $579 $329
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 21 Navi 23
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - GeForce RTX 3060
Successor - - Radeon RX 7600
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12600 or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 67th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1626 MHz
Boost Clock 2105 MHz 2491 MHz
Shading Units 3840 1792
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 64
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 60 28
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 202 GPixel/s 159 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 505 GTexel/s 279 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6800 +82%
16.2 TFLOPS
RX 6600
8.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 250 W 132 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 7 nm
Die Size 520 mm² 237 mm²
Transistor Count 26 billion 11 billion
Transistor Density 50 MTr/mm² 46.41 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6800 +129%
512 GB/s
RX 6600
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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Total votes: 6

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