Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 — Specs & Performance Compared
Verdict: The Radeon RX 6600 leads on 4 of 6 shared benchmarks (7% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 takes 2 (19% in 3DMark Steel Nomad). On mistral:7b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 generates 48.6 tokens/s (per DatabaseMart) against 19.0 for the Radeon RX 6600 (per ai-ollama.github.io (Ollama AMD GPU DirectML Guide)), best community run on file for each.
Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 6600 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. Released 2021 (Radeon RX 6600), 2019 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060). MSRP range: $329 · $349. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | Radeon RX 6600 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 8 | 6 |
| vram type | — | GDDR6 |
| tdp w | — | 160 |
| cuda cores | — | 1920 |
| process nm | — | 12 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from 3DMark, Notebookcheck, PCGamesN, HardwareCooking, TopCPU, UL Benchmarks, CpuTronic, The FPS Review, KitGuru, Guru3D, PCBench, VideoCardz, PassMark and Tom's Hardware; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | Radeon RX 6600 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, Notebookcheck |
20,362 points | 16,961 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme Graphics Score (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck |
10,870 points | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck |
23,366 points | — |
| 3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: PCGamesN, HardwareCooking, 3DMark |
3,928 points | 4,034 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, TopCPU |
1,548 points | 1,423 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: UL Benchmarks, 3DMark, CpuTronic |
1,487 points | 1,766 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: The FPS Review, KitGuru, 3DMark, Guru3D, PCBench, Notebookcheck, VideoCardz |
8,155 points | 7,596 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (higher is better) Source: KitGuru |
8,155 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics Score (higher is better) Source: Notebookcheck |
7,979 points | — |
| PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark |
896 pts | — |
| PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark |
15,064 pts | 14,076 points |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy (lower is better) Source: Tom's Hardware |
220 rank | — |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.
Radeon RX 6600
- qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
- llama2:7b: 50.6 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub Discussions)
- llama2:7b: 50.6 tok/s (knightli.com)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
- llama3.2:3b: 50.4 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
- mistral:7b: 48.6 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
- deepseek-r1:1.5b: 43.1 tok/s (DatabaseMart)
Quick answers
Which is faster, the Radeon RX 6600 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060?
The Radeon RX 6600 leads on 4 of 6 shared benchmarks (7% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 takes 2 (19% in 3DMark Steel Nomad).
Which is better for running local LLMs?
On mistral:7b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 generates 48.6 tokens/s (per DatabaseMart) against 19.0 for the Radeon RX 6600 (per ai-ollama.github.io (Ollama AMD GPU DirectML Guide)), best community run on file for each.
What did the Radeon RX 6600 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 cost at launch?
The Radeon RX 6600 launched at a $329 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 at $349. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.
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