The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.59 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.61 TFLOPS.
Quick comparison
In FP32 performance, the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G is 46 % faster than the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB.
The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.
Memory
Memory
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
2.000 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
16.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
256 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
128 bit
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.
The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G
Base Clock
1.469 GHz
1.968 GHz
Boost Clock
1.580 GHz
2.589 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
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2.36 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has a turbo clock of 1.580 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G is 2.589 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G
TDP
225 W
160 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
100 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
1 x 8-Pin
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.
The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G 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.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G
Fan-Type
Axial
Axial
Fan 1
2 x 100 mm
3 x 80 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB are cooled with a Air cooling.
The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.3
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
2x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4
2x DP 1.4a
DVI
1
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12
12_2 (Ultimate)
Raytracing
No
Yes
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.
The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode / Encode
VP9
Decode
Decode / Encode
AV1
No
Decode
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G
Length
270 mm
282 mm
Height
124 mm
113 mm
Width
53 mm
41 mm
Width (Slots)
3 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy 8GB is 53 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle 8G is 53 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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