Radeon RX 7500 XT vs RX 6600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking113not rated
Place by popularity13not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation67.39no data
Power efficiency20.42no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 23Navi 33
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 October 2021 (3 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 no data

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 cores17921024
Core clock speed1626 MHz1452 MHz
Boost clock speed2491 MHz2300 MHz
Number of transistors11,060 million13,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)132 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate279.0147.2
Floating-point processing power8.928 TFLOPS9.421 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs11264
Ray Tracing Cores2816

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 x8
Length190 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 6-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 amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s216.0 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 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
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 Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.2
Vulkan1.21.3

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 132 Watt 100 Watt

RX 6600 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 7500 XT, on the other hand, has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 32% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6600 and Radeon RX 7500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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