Radeon RX 6600 XT vs HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated78
Place by popularitynot in top-10091
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data48.25
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code nameCypressNavi 23
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)30 July 2021 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 $379
Current priceno data$283 (0.7x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16002048
Core clock speed850 MHz1968 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2589 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million11,060 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt160 (TGP) Watt
Texture fill rate68.00331.4
Floating-point performance2,720.0 gflopsno data

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length279 mm190 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4800 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort
HDMIno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 March 2010 30 July 2021
Cost $479 $379
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 160 Watt

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