AMD Radeon Pro W6600X: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon Pro W6600X provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 29.65% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon Pro W6600X sales 3 August 2021 at a recommended price of $699. 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 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 120 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon Pro W6600X: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 195 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 20.49 | |
| Power efficiency | 19.89 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 23 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 3 August 2021 (4 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $699 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Radeon Pro W6600X's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro W6600X's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2048 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 2068 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 2479 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 11,060 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 120 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 317.3 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 10.15 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 128 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 32 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| L0 Cache | 512 KB | of 3 MB (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| L1 Cache | 512 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L3 Cache | 32 MB | of 256 MB (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Pro W6600X 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 x8 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro W6600X: 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 256.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro W6600X. 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 | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Radeon Pro W6600X, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro W6600X. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro W6600X is A10G, which is slower by 2% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Pro W6600X:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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