GeForce RTX 5090 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to Radeon RX 6600 XT (30/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Efficiency 48.0 Poor WINNER 42.0 Poor
Gaming 100.0 Excellent WINNER 29.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Fire Strike 87569 28663
Night Raid 206648 114625
Port Royal 38202 4642
Solar Bay 236689 37690
Time Spy 46873 9637
Wild Life Extreme 108751 17389

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
CUDA 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DirectX 12.2 12
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
1080p High 299 108
1080p Ultra 254 86
1440p Ultra 207 59
4K Ultra 125 32
CoD: Modern Warfare III 334322260184 95875836
Counter-Strike 2 36326520299 1841299047
Cyberpunk 2077 26123316077 71633715
Far Cry 6 237202190121 102916734
Forza Horizon 5 336247233187 135766140
Ghost of Tsushima 221185175113 75584322
Hogwarts Legacy 24919916697 69594020
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 329302238128 1221107535
The Witcher 3 364327237123 116996437

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 85572 28767
Face Detection (HP) 114685 21268
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 18948 6815
Image Segmentation (HP) 55109 8295
Image Super Resolution (Q) 58478 18041
Machine Translation (HP) 8184 3539
Object Detection (SP) 27802 6006
Pose Estimation (Q) 344729 71311
Style Transfer (SP) 687080 169389
Text Classification (SP) 4464 1967

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 333 img/sec 208 img/sec
Edge Detection 33.7 Gpixels/sec 3.71 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 298.5 img/sec 114.6 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.53 Gpixels/sec 0.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 34.5 Gpixels/sec 3.38 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 21.7 Gpixels/sec 2.91 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 59146.9 FPS 11198.1 FPS
Stereo Matching 2850 Gpixels/sec 306 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB202-300 Navi 23
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $379
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above -Intel Core i5 13600or above
Released January 7, 2025 July 30, 2021
Segment High-end Mid-range
Vendor Nvidia Amd
Nvidia Equivalent -GeForce RTX 3060
Successor -Radeon RX 9060 XT

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Base Clock 2017 MHz 1968 MHz
Boost Clock 2407 MHz 2589 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 96MB shared 2MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 170 32
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 64
Shading Units 21760 2048
Tensor Cores 680 No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 680 128

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Bus 512-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory Size 32 GB 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
DirectX 11 341 FPS 164 FPS
DirectX 12 179 FPS 60 FPS
G2D Mark 1410 914
GPU Compute 24360 Ops/s 7391 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Die Size 750 mm² 237 mm²
Fabrication Process 4 nm 7 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 575 W 160 W
Transistor Count 92.2 billion 11 billion
Transistor Density 122.93 MTr/mm² 46.41 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5090 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Pixel Fill Rate 424 GPixel/s 166 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1637 GTexel/s 331 GTexel/s

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