Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5
vs
PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.37 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.71 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 has 1792 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.49 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.93 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 GPU PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on AMD Radeon RX 6600
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip Navi 23 XL
GCN 4 Architecture RDNA 2
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
2304 Shader 1792
32 Render Output Units 64
144 Texture Units 112
0 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has a turbo clock of 1.366 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 is 2.491 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.626 GHz
1.366 GHz Boost Clock 2.491 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.04 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

225 W TDP 132 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 37 dB

Connectivity

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

230 mm Length 200 mm
125 mm Height 111 mm
40 mm Width 39 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 was released in Q4/2017.

The PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 published in Q4/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

11265-05 / 11265-33 Part-no AXRX 6600 8GBD6-3DH
Q4/2017 Release date Q4/2021
229 $ Launch Price 329 $ (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)

PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
24 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
31 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
50 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)

PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
28 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
64 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)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5
8 GB GDDR5
85 fps (avg)
PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
127 fps (avg)

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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