amd

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

1792

Cores

224 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX 6600

$329 Oct 2021 View Details

amd

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

2304

Cores

256 GB/s

Bandwidth

AMD Radeon RX 590

$279 Nov 2018 View Details

AMD Radeon RX 6600

8GB GDDR6 132W $329 Oct 2021

Radeon RX 6600

$329 • Oct 2021

Radeon RX 590

$279 • Nov 2018

AMD Radeon RX 590

8GB GDDR5 175W $279 Nov 2018

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6600	AMD Radeon RX 590
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR5
TDP	132 W	175 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2491 MHz	1545 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	224 GB/s	256 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	12nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	GCN 4.0
Shading Units	1792	2304
RT Cores	28	N/A
TMUs	112	144
ROPs	64	32
Memory Bus	128-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1750 MHz	2000 MHz
Pixel Rate	159.4 GPixel/s	49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	224 GTexel/s	256 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	8.928 GFLOPS	7.119 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	2.00 MB
Die Size	237 mm²	232 mm²
Transistors	11060 Million	5700 Million
Required PSU	300 W	450 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	GlobalFoundries

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

7173 (+56%)

AMD Radeon RX 6600

4611

AMD Radeon RX 590

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

58048 (+27%)

AMD Radeon RX 6600

45783

AMD Radeon RX 590

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

96.4 FPS (+58%)

AMD Radeon RX 6600

61.2 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 590

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

15115 (+61%)

AMD Radeon RX 6600

9375

AMD Radeon RX 590

Game Benchmarks Comparison (30 benchmarks)

Scars Above

7.9 2023 • Action, Adventure • Mad Head Games

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 6600 (+72%)

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 6600 (+57%)

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

Radeon RX 6600 (+50%)

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Winner

Loser

ICARUS

7.7 2021 • Action, Adventure, Simulation • RocketWerkz

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+57%)

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+47%)

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 19 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+86%)

AVG 13 FPS

MIN 11 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 7 FPS

MIN 5 FPS

Winner

Loser

Chorus

8.9 2021 • Action, Adventure • Deep Silver Fishlabs

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+78%)

AVG 190 FPS

MIN 152 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+70%)

AVG 114 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+83%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 30 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

8 2021 • Action, Adventure • Frogwares

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+71%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 63 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+55%)

AVG 48 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+60%)

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 20 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

Jurassic World Evolution 2

8 2021 • Simulation, Strategy • Frontier Developments

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+58%)

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+48%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+200%)

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 8 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

Winner

Loser

Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice

7.1 2017 • Action, Adventure, Indie • Ninja Theory

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+51%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+48%)

AVG 62 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6600 (+45%)

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Radeon RX 590

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 19 FPS

Winner

Loser

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