AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT vs RX 6600M
AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT
Navi 33
AMD Radeon RX 6600M
Navi 23
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600M XT with 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months older RX 6600M that utilizes 28 pipelines and 1792 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600M XT
- Performs better (up to 26%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (20.2 vs 7.8 TFLOPS)
- Shows 16% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 57 vs 49 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- Has 29% higher memory bandwidth: 288 vs 224 GB/s
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 131 70 59 37 |
113 60 50 31 |
| The Witcher 3 | 114 93 63 32 |
98 78 53 30 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 180 123 90 47 |
161 110 78 37 |
| Far Cry 6 | 101 84 62 34 |
87 75 57 28 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 65 53 38 18 |
56 45 33 17 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 90 82 56 36 |
75 69 45 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 74 58 42 22 |
60 49 35 19 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 69 58 34 14 |
58 51 29 13 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 115 104 71 34 |
103 90 61 31 |
| 1080p High | 104 | 90 |
| 1080p Ultra | 81 | 70 |
| 1440p Ultra | 57 | 49 |
| 4K Ultra | 30 | 26 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 8813 | 8006 |
| Solar Bay | 35165 | 29953 |
| Port Royal | 4659 | 3880 |
| Fire Strike | 23952 | 23177 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 16033 | 14422 |
| Night Raid | 61090 | 94761 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 186.5 img/sec | 176.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 104.8 img/sec | 102.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.79 Gpixels/sec | 2.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.91 Gpixels/sec | 3.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.3 Gpixels/sec | 2.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.87 Gpixels/sec | 0.78 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 253.1 Gpixels/sec | 313.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 9459.7 FPS | 8768.9 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 909 | 722 |
| DirectX 11 | 135 FPS | 136 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 62 FPS | 51 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7153 Ops/s | 5566 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 8974 | 6355 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 8862 | 7183 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 23799 | 16962 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 26407 | 20793 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 87536 | 65012 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3561 | 2139 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2851 | 3411 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7042 | 5102 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 40441 | 26194 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 175589 | 139748 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600M XT and RX 6600MGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 4, 2023 | June 1, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| 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 4050 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12400 or above | - AMD Ryzen 5 5600H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (57th and 74th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1280 MHz | 1489 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2469 MHz | 1520-2177 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 1792 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 112 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 28 |
| 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 | 158 GPixel/s | 97-139 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 316 GTexel/s | 170-244 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 120 W | 50-100 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 7 nm |
| Die Size | 204 mm² | 237 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 13 billion | 11.06 billion |
| Transistor Density | 63.73 MTr/mm² | 46.67 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
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | - | 1.4 |
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