AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs Intel Arc A580

Specifications of GPUs

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of the characteristics and performance of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 and Intel Arc A580 video cards. This comparison will help you determine which one best suits your needs.

Basic

Label Name
AMD
Intel
Launch Date
October 2021
October 2023
Platform
Desktop
Desktop
Model Name
Radeon RX 6600
Arc A580
Generation
Navi II
Alchemist
Base Clock
1626MHz
1700MHz
Boost Clock
2491MHz
2000MHz
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
1792
3072
Transistors
11,060 million
21,700 million
RT Cores
28
24
Compute Units
28
-
Tensor Cores
?
Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.
-
384
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
112
192
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
-
L2 Cache
2MB
8MB
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
6 nm
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Generation 12.7
TDP
132W
175W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
128bit
256bit
Memory Clock
1750MHz
2000MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
224.0 GB/s
512.0 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
159.4 GPixel/s
192.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
279.0 GTexel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
17.86 TFLOPS
24.58 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
558.0 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
8.748 TFlops
12.286 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
1.3
OpenCL Version
2.1
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
64
96
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
Suggested PSU
300W
450W

Advantages

AMD Radeon RX 6600
Radeon RX 6600
  • Higher Boost Clock: 2491MHz (2491MHz vs 2000MHz)
Intel Arc A580
Arc A580
  • More Shading Units: 3072 (1792 vs 3072)
  • Higher Bandwidth: 512.0 GB/s (224.0 GB/s vs 512.0 GB/s)
  • Newer Launch Date: October 2023 (October 2021 vs October 2023)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6600
+25% 35 Fps
Arc A580
28 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6600
+59% 70 Fps
Arc A580
44 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6600
+82% 129 Fps
Arc A580
71 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6600
49 Fps
Arc A580
+8% 53 Fps

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6600
8.748 TFlops
Arc A580
+40% 12.286 TFlops

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6600
7974
Arc A580
+36% 10880

SiliconCat Rating

161
Ranks 161 among Desktop GPU on our website
328
Ranks 328 among all GPU on our website
123
Ranks 123 among Desktop GPU on our website
250
Ranks 250 among all GPU on our website
Radeon RX 6600
Arc A580

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