AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs 6600 XT
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Navi 23
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 3 years and 11 months older 6600 XT 8 GB that utilizes 2048 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
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT
- Performs significantly better (up to 55%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (25.6 vs 10.6 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Shows 61% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 95 vs 59 FPS
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Has 25% higher memory bandwidth: 320 vs 256 GB/s
- Achieves 28% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (107K vs 84K)
- Features 64 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 178 111 95 67 |
135 76 61 40 |
| The Witcher 3 | 166 148 106 57 |
116 99 64 37 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 266 189 133 71 |
184 129 90 47 |
| Far Cry 6 | 144 123 106 63 |
102 91 67 34 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 105 87 65 33 |
69 59 40 20 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 143 135 96 62 |
95 87 58 36 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 107 87 70 41 |
75 58 43 22 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 111 94 62 27 |
71 63 37 15 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 185 163 120 61 |
122 110 75 35 |
| 1080p High | 156 | 108 |
| 1080p Ultra | 126 | 86 |
| 1440p Ultra | 95 | 59 |
| 4K Ultra | 54 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 16348 | 9637 |
| Solar Bay | 65705 | 37690 |
| Port Royal | 9693 | 4642 |
| Fire Strike | 38876 | 28663 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 27791 | 17389 |
| Night Raid | 147165 | 114625 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 269.5 img/sec | 208 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 151 img/sec | 114.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.6 Gpixels/sec | 2.91 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.67 Gpixels/sec | 3.71 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.27 Gpixels/sec | 3.38 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.08 Gpixels/sec | 0.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 395.3 Gpixels/sec | 306 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13165.7 FPS | 11198.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1166 | 914 |
| DirectX 11 | 185 FPS | 164 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 58 FPS | 60 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 11246 Ops/s | 7383 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 9060 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-07-23 -> Aquiyoshi | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 102797 |
| 📘 2026-07-23 -> Aquiyoshi | Steel Nomad Light | 14313 |
Radeon RX 6600 XT
No benchmark results yet
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) | 12380 | 6815 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 15402 | 8295 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 32024 | 18041 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 50457 | 21268 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 113796 | 71311 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4460 | 1967 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7481 | 3539 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 11256 | 6006 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 53978 | 28767 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 235750 | 169389 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and 6600 XTGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | June 4, 2025 | July 30, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $349 | $379 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 | RDNA 2.0 |
| GPU Codename | Navi 44 | Navi 23 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) | - GeForce RTX 3060 |
| Successor | - | - Radeon RX 9060 XT |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - Intel Core i5 13600 or above |
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 66th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1700 MHz | 1968 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3130 MHz | 2589 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 128 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 32 | - |
| Tensor Cores | 64 | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 200 GPixel/s | 166 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 401 GTexel/s | 331 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 160 W | 160 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 7 nm |
| Die Size | 199 mm² | 237 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 29.7 billion | 11 billion |
| Transistor Density | 149.25 MTr/mm² | 46.41 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 110°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2518 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20100 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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