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Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

The Radeon RX 480 uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1968 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 480 150 Watts
Radeon RX 6600 XT 160 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so in theory they should perform exactly the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT is much (more or less 56%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 480. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT 251904 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 480 161280 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 90624 (56%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT should be a lot (about 251%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT 125952 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 35840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 90112 (251%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon RX 480 Radeon RX 6600 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year June 2016 August 2021
Code Name Polaris 10 Navi 23 XT
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1120 MHz 1968 MHz
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 4000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 161280 Mtexels/sec 251904 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 35840 Mpixels/sec 125952 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2304 2048
Texture Mapping Units 144 128
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 14 nm 7 nm
Transistors 5700 million 11060 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon RX 480

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Radeon RX 6600 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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