Graphics card comparison

RTX 3060 vs RX 6600

The RTX 3060 and the RX 6600 land close enough that neither is meaningfully faster. The choice between them comes down to memory, power draw and price rather than performance.

Faster card

Too close to call

Under 5% apart, which is inside the range where the two trade places depending on the workload.

Where the gap is

RTX 3060RX 6600
Performance index
3,900
3,800
Memory
12 GB
8 GB
Performance per watt
22.9
28.8
Power draw Lower is better
170 W
132 W

Each row is scaled to the larger of the two values, so the bars show how much of the leader the other one reaches — not a shared scale across rows. The real figure is printed on every bar.

Side by side

Specification RTX 3060 RX 6600
Performance index3900 3800
Memory12 GB8 GB
Power draw170 W132 W
Performance per watt22.9 28.8
ArchitectureRDNA 2
GenerationRTX 30 SeriesRX 6000 Series
function

How the gap is worked out

The percentage compares the two parts on the same relative performance index the site's bottleneck and build tools use, expressed as a share of the slower one. It is a single combined figure, not a frame rate: a specific game at a specific resolution can and will land either side of it, and a card with more memory pulls further ahead the moment a title needs that memory. Treat it as the size of the gap, not as a measurement of your machine.

What each one needs to run

The RTX 3060 and the RX 6600 do not draw the same power, and the difference often outlives the card — a supply is the part you keep. Each page works the total out for a complete system.

Pair it with a processor

A faster card only shows up as faster frames if the processor can keep up with it. The bottleneck detector takes both and says which one is holding the other back.

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