Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce GTX 1050

Radeon RX 6600
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2021
Radeon RX 6600
GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Oct 2016
GeForce GTX 1050

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 6600
    302%
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6600

202% higher gaming performance.
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 GeForce GTX 1050

57 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 6600 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 6600

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 6600

The Radeon RX 6600 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6600GeForce GTX 1050
GPU NameNavi 23 (Navi 23 XL (215-130000016))vsGP107 (GP107-300-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs14 nm
Die Size237 mm²vs132 mm²
Transistors11,060 millionvs3,300 million
Shaders1792vs640
Raytracing Cores28vsnone
Compute Units28vs5
Core clock1626 MHzvs1354 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs112vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6600GeForce GTX 1050
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6600GeForce GTX 1050
TDP132 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2021vs25 Oct 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6600
    159.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    43.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6600
    279.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    54.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6600
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    112.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6600
    8928.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    1733.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • Radeon RX 6600
    107
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    33

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • Radeon RX 6600
    70
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    25

FPS (higher is better)