Radeon RX 6600 XT vs Radeon R9 390 X2

Radeon RX 6600 XT
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Jul 2021
Radeon RX 6600 XT
Radeon R9 390 X2
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2015
Radeon R9 390 X2
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6600 XT

420 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 390 X2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 390 X2

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6600 XTRadeon R9 390 X2
GPU NameNavi 23 (Navi 23 XT (215-130000006))vsGrenada (Grenada PRO)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size237 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors11,060 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders2048vs2560
Raytracing Cores32vsnone
Compute Units32vs40
Core clock1968 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs128vs160

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6600 XTRadeon R9 390 X2
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs512 bit x2
Memory Speed2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
vs1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6600 XTRadeon R9 390 X2
TDP160 wattsvs580 watts
Release Date30 Jul 2021vs3 Sep 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    165.70 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390 X2
    128.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    331.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390 X2
    320.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    256.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390 X2
    692.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    10600.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390 X2
    10240.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better