AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs RX 6600

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600 with 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months older RX 6600 that utilizes 1792 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

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
68.3
(Good)
Value Index
42.2
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 6600 over RX 7600
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600
  • 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (21.7 vs 8.9 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Achieves 43% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (82K vs 58K)
  • Has 29% higher memory bandwidth: 288 vs 224 GB/s

Gaming Performance

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

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
139
80
68
45
144
78
66
43
The Witcher 3
126
110
75
40
124
104
71
39
Counter-Strike 2
200
144
98
52
197
140
97
50
Far Cry 6
110
98
74
41
110
95
70
41
Hogwarts Legacy
76
63
45
24
74
65
46
24
CoD: Modern Warfare III
101
99
67
40
100
96
64
40
Ghost of Tsushima
82
68
49
26
84
65
49
27
Cyberpunk 2077
78
68
43
19
79
67
43
21
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
133
120
82
39
131
117
84
40
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 116
1080p Ultra 94 92
1440p Ultra 67 66
4K Ultra 36 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
10064
RX 6600 +1%
10212
Time Spy 10931 10397
Solar Bay 44276 45002
Port Royal 5670 5819
Fire Strike 31177 26481
Wild Life Extreme 19837 19820
Night Raid 120061 98330
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7600 +43%
82731
58048
Background Blur 201.7 img/sec 104.1 img/sec
Face Detection 110.3 img/sec 79.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.05 Gpixels/sec 2.05 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.12 Gpixels/sec 2.61 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.72 Gpixels/sec 2.59 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.91 Gpixels/sec 0.64 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 266.1 Gpixels/sec 257.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9727.4 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
4764
4786

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7600 +9%
16447
15044
G2D Mark 985 895
DirectX 11 172 FPS 153 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 51 FPS
GPU Compute 8738 Ops/s 6443 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 6686 & 15721 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7600 +31%
1262.1
966.59
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 448 & 1115 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 7600 +63%
20579
12643
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7600 +78%
26805
15089
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7600 +76%
16792
9547
Image Classification (SP) 10305 5441
Image Segmentation (HP) 11405 6810
Image Super Resolution (Q) 25104 15043
Face Detection (HP) 34286 19066
Pose Estimation (Q) 91413 58821
Text Classification (SP) 3906 1943
Machine Translation (HP) 5084 2928
Object Detection (SP) 7217 4309
Depth Estimation (Q) 42955 23470
Style Transfer (SP) 178703 132475
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600 and RX 6600

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 24, 2023 October 13, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $269 $329
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 33 Navi 23
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 - GeForce RTX 3060
Successor - - Radeon RX 7600
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13500 or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (56th and 68th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1720 MHz 1626 MHz
Boost Clock 2655 MHz 2491 MHz
Shading Units 2048 1792
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 32 28
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 170 GPixel/s 159 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 340 GTexel/s 279 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7600 +144%
21.7 TFLOPS
8.9 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 165 W 132 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 7 nm
Die Size 204 mm² 237 mm²
Transistor Count 13 billion 11 billion
Transistor Density 63.73 MTr/mm² 46.41 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7600 +29%
288 GB/s
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.1
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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