AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT vs RX 6600M

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

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 RX 6600M over RX 7600M XT
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 resolutions

Games

FPS Table
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
Average FPS by Resolution
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 apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
8806
7010
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
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
77586
71125
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
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
4681
4288

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
14321
13784
G2D Mark 909 722
DirectX 11 135 FPS 136 FPS
DirectX 12 62 FPS 51 FPS
GPU Compute 7153 Ops/s 5566 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 421 & 1025 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1067.92
902.36
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 39 & 97 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
17923
14016
GB6 ML Half Precision
21900
16471
GB6 ML Quantized
14986
11065
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
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600M XT and RX 6600M

General

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)
RX 7600M XT +159%
20.2 TFLOPS
5.4-7.8 TFLOPS
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
288 GB/s
224 GB/s

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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Total votes: 6

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