Radeon RX 6600 vs Apple M1 GPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated113
Place by popularitynot in top-10013
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data67.40
Power efficiencyno data20.42
Architectureno dataRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameno dataNavi 23
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)13 October 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$329

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores81792
Core clock speedno data1626 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2491 MHz
Number of transistorsno data11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data132 Watt
Texture fill rateno data279.0
Floating-point processing powerno data8.928 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data190 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.1
Vulkan-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 13 October 2021
Chip lithography 5 nm 7 nm

Apple M1 GPU has a 40% more advanced lithography process.

RX 6600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 GPU and Radeon RX 6600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Apple M1 GPU is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6600 is a desktop one.


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