Radeon Pro W6900X vs RX 6600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking114not rated
Place by popularity13not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation67.46no data
Power efficiency20.42no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 23Navi 21
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date13 October 2021 (3 years ago)3 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 $4,999

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 cores17925120
Core clock speed1626 MHz1825 MHz
Boost clock speed2491 MHz2150 MHz
Number of transistors11,060 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)132 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate279.0688.0
Floating-point processing power8.928 TFLOPS22.02 TFLOPS
ROPs64128
TMUs112320
Ray Tracing Cores2880

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 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length190 mm267 mm
Width2-slotQuad-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 amount8 GB32 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s512.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan1.21.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 October 2021 3 August 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 32 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 132 Watt 300 Watt

RX 6600 has an age advantage of 2 months, and 127.3% lower power consumption.

Pro W6900X, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6600 and Radeon Pro W6900X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6600 is a desktop card while Radeon Pro W6900X is a workstation one.


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