Radeon RX 6600 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 168 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be much better than the Radeon RX 6600 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 266076 (116%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is quite a bit (more or less 94%) better at AF than the Radeon RX 6600. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 171680 (94%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be just a bit (about 18%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15616 (18%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.