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AMD Radeon Pro W6600: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon Pro W6600 sales 8 June 2021 at a recommended price of $649 . This is a RDNA 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GB/s are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 100 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 41.48% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon Pro W6600: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 73 | |
| Value for money | 19.13 | |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 23 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 8 June 2021 (2 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $649 | |
| Current price | $1522 (2.3x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Radeon Pro W6600's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro W6600's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1792 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 2903 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 11,060 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 325.1 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Pro W6600 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 241 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro W6600: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 14 GB/s | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 224.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro W6600. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon Pro W6600, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro W6600. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon Pro W6600 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon Pro W6600 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro W6600 is Quadro RTX 5000, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Pro W6600:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
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These processors are most commonly used with Radeon Pro W6600 according to our statistics.
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