Radeon RX 6600 vs ATI 9700 PRO X4

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated150
Place by popularitynot in top-10014
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data56.61
Power efficiencyno data20.78
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)
GPU code nameR300Navi 23
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 July 2002 (23 years ago)13 October 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$329

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Performance to price scatter graph

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 coresno data1792
Core clock speed325 MHz1626 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2491 MHz
Number of transistors110 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data132 Watt
Texture fill rate2.600 ×4279.0
Floating-point processing powerno data8.928 TFLOPS
ROPs8 ×464
TMUs8 ×4112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data190 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x Molex1x 8-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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB ×48 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit ×4128 Bit
Memory clock speed310 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.84 GB/s ×4224.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors4x DVI1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2002 13 October 2021
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 7 nm

RX 6600 has an age advantage of 19 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2042.9% more advanced lithography process.

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