Radeon RX 6600 Vs Radeon RX 6650 XT Gaming Performance

The Radeon RX 6600 and the Radeon RX 6650 XT are newly released graphics cards that offer a significant performance boost over their predecessors. Find out which is better for gaming in this article.

The “rx 6600 xt vs rtx 2060 super” is a comparison between the Radeon RX 6600 and Radeon RX 6650 XT. The two cards are very similar, but the RX 6600 has a slight edge in performance.

Introduction

How much faster is the new Radeon RX 6650 XT compared to the Radeon RX 6600? Now that AMD has replaced the Radeon RX 6600 XT with the new Radeon RX 6650 XT, the product scaling goes from Radeon RX 6600 at $329 MSRP > to Radeon RX 6650 XT at $399 MSRP. But how much performance difference is there in that jump from the Radeon RX 6600 to the Radeon RX 6650 XT? What does the “XT” upgrade give you? How much does $70 buy you in gameplay performance? That is what we are going to find out today using two real retail video cards.

This is our Radeon RX 6600 vs. Radeon RX 6650 XT Performance Comparison Review, in which we pit the two video cards against each other in games to see how much performance difference there is between them. Today’s benchmarks will allow you to view the types of performance that have been achieved and determine for yourself what you need. Is the Radeon RX 6600 sufficient for you, or do you need the additional performance provided by the Radeon RX 6650 XT?

Specs of Radeon RX 6600 and Radeon RX 6650 XT

Here’s a brief comparison of specifications to see how the Radeon RX 6600 and Radeon RX 6650 XT stack up.

	AMD Radeon RX 6600 graphics card	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics card
Architecture/Process	N7 RDNA2/TSMC	N7 RDNA2/TSMC
Count of Transistors	11.1 billion	11.1 billion
Die Size	237 mm2	237 mm2
Units of computation	28	32
Accelerators Ray	28	32
Processors of Streams	1792	2048
ROPs	64	64
TMUs	112	128
Cache of Infinity	32MB	32MB
GPU Clock in Games	2044 MHz	2410 MHz
Increase GPU Clock	2491 MHz	2635 MHz
Memory	8GB GDDR6 /128-bit / 14GHz	8GB GDDR6 /128-bit / 17.5GHz
Bandwidth of Memory	224GB/s	280GB/s
Interface PCIe	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x8
Board of Directors	132W	180W
MSRP	$329	$399

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 graphics card and AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics card are both based on the RDNA2 architecture, TSMC N7 process, and NAVI 23 GPU, die size and Count of Transistors are the same. The Radeon RX 6600 has 28 Units of computation, 28 Accelerators Ray, 1,792 Processors of Streams, 64 ROPs, 112 TMUs, and 32MB of Cache of Infinity. The Radeon RX 6650 XT has 32 Units of computation, 32 Accelerators Ray, 2,048 Processors of Streams, 64 ROPs, 128 TMUs, and 32MB of Cache of Infinity.

The Radeon RX 6600 has a GPU Clock in Games of 2044MHz and a Increase GPU Clock of 2491MHz. The Radeon RX 6650 XT has a GPU Clock in Games of 2410MHz and a Increase GPU Clock of 2635MHz.

The Radeon RX 6600 has 8GB of GDDR6 at 14GHz on a 128-bit bus providing 224GB/s of Bandwidth of Memory. The Radeon RX 6650 XT has 8GB of GDDR6 at 17.5GHz on a 128-bit bus providing 280GB/s of Bandwidth of Memory. The Radeon RX 6600 has a TDP of 132W while the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a TDP of 180W.

Comparison of Video Cards

To perform this comparison, we’ll use two retail video cards that we’ve previously tested individually.

We’re employing the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 6600 GAMING video card for our Radeon RX 6600 based video card. Game Clock 2044MHz and Boost Clock 2491MHz are the AMD standard speeds for this visual card. It contains 8GB of 14GHz GDDR6 memory.

The MSI Radeon RX 6650 XT GAMING X video card is our Radeon RX 6650 XT based video card. The GPU Game Clock is 2523MHz, and the GPU Boost is 2694MHz. This card has a factory overclock. It contains 8GB of 17.5GHz GDDR6 memory.

For a description of our test system, techniques, and aims, please read our GPU Test Bench and Benchmarking Refresher. It’s worth noting that the system now has a Ryzen 7 5800X processor. You may find more information about our GPU testing here. Check out our KIT page to see all of the components in our video card evaluation test system setup.

In the motherboard BIOS, we activated PCI-Express Resizable BAR. In all of our tests, we’re using Resizable BAR on NVIDIA GPUs and AMD Smart Access Memory on AMD GPUs.

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