Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Radeon RX 6600
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2021
Radeon RX 6600
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6600

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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 1060 3 GB

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6600GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
GPU NameNavi 23 (Navi 23 XL (215-130000016))vsGP106 (GP106-300-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs16 nm
Die Size237 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors11,060 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders1792vs1152
Raytracing Cores28vsnone
Compute Units28vs9
Core clock1626 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs64vs48
TMUs112vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6600GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6600GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
TDP132 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2021vs18 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6600
    159.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6600
    279.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    108.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6600
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6600
    8928.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
    3470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better