Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh

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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 data67.39
Power efficiencyno data20.42
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BNavi 23
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 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 cores19201792
Core clock speed960 MHz1626 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz2491 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt132 Watt
Texture fill rate144.0279.0
Floating-point processing power4.608 TFLOPS8.928 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs120112
Tensor Cores240no data
Ray Tracing Cores3028

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data190 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1353 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth259.8 GB/s224.0 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 outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1401.2
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 January 2019 13 October 2021
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 132 Watt

RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh has 14.8% lower power consumption.

RX 6600, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon RX 6600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6600 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh
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