PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5
vs
XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 and the XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 570 and has 2048 texture shaders and 32 execution units.

XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is based on AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, which has 2048 shaders and 32 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 GPU XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming
AMD Radeon RX 570 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Polaris 20 XL GPU Chip Navi 23 XT
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 2
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 32
2048 Shader 2048
32 Render Output Units 64
128 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 32

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming 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
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 clocks in the base with up to 1.168 GHz. The base frequency of the XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is 2.188 GHz.

1.168 GHz Base Clock 2.188 GHz
1.250 GHz Boost Clock 2.607 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.43 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 is 150 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming has a TDP of 160 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

150 W TDP 160 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 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 Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0 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 Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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 Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 is 255 mm long, 137 mm high and 47 mm wide.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is 274 mm long, 114 mm high and 50 mm wide.

255 mm Length 274 mm
137 mm Height 114 mm
47 mm Width 50 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 570 8GB GDDR5 was released in Q2/2017 at a price of 169 $.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming was introduced in Q3/2021 at a price of 379 $ (Reference).

AXRX 570 8GBD5-3DHD/OC Part-no RX-66XT8TBDQ
Q2/2017 Release date Q3/2021
169 $ 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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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