PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2
vs
MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 and the MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 590 and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G is based on AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, which has 2048 shaders and 32 execution units.
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 GPU MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Polaris 30 XT GPU Chip Navi 23 XT
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 2
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 32
2304 Shader 2048
32 Render Output Units 64
144 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 32

Memory

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G can access 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 clocks in the base with up to 1.469 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G is 1.968 GHz.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.968 GHz
1.555 GHz Boost Clock 2.589 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.36 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 is 225 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G has a TDP of 160 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

225 W TDP 160 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2.

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Non addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 is 255 mm long, 157 mm high and 46 mm wide.

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G is 235 mm long, 125 mm high and 46 mm wide.

255 mm Length 235 mm
157 mm Height 125 mm
46 mm Width 46 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 721 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 Red Devil 8GB GDDR5 V2 was released in Q4/2018 at a price of 279 $.

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G was introduced in Q3/2021 at a price of 379 $ (Reference).

AXRX 590 8GBD5-3DHV2/OC Part-no --
Q4/2018 Release date Q3/2021
279 $ Launch Price 379 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G
8 GB GDDR6
29 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G
8 GB GDDR6
36 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G
8 GB GDDR6
58 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G
8 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT MECH 2X 8G
8 GB GDDR6
70 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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