Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Oct 2021
Generation Volcanic Islands Navi II
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz 1626 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 2491 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 28
Shading Units 2048 1792
TMUs 128 112
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 128 KB per Array
L2 Cache 768 KB 2 MB
RT Cores 28
L3 Cache 32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 159.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 128.0 GTexel/s 279.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.096 TFLOPS 8.928 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1024 GFLOPS 558.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 17.86 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Navi 23
GPU Variant Tahiti XTL(215-0821065) Navi 23 XL(215-130000016)
Architecture GCN 1.0 RDNA 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 11.06 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 237 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 132W
Suggested PSU 600 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 5.1 6.5