Intel Arc B580 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare the Intel Arc B580 and Radeon RX 6600 XT on real gaming benchmarks, full specifications, live retailer prices and performance-per-dollar, then jump straight to the cheapest in-stock version of either card.

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The short answer

The Intel Arc B580 is the better buy here: it's both faster at 1080p and gives more performance per dollar.

  • Intel Arc B580 is about 17% faster at 1080p (gaming index 41 vs 35).
  • Intel Arc B580 is the cheaper card right now, by roughly 18%.
  • Intel Arc B580 delivers about 37% more frames per dollar at 1080p.
  • Intel Arc B580 carries more VRAM (12GB vs 8GB), an edge at 4K and in memory-heavy games.
  • Radeon RX 6600 XT draws less power (160W vs 190W), so it runs cooler and asks less of your PSU.

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Switch resolution with the toggle above.

1080p gaming
Intel Arc B58041
Radeon RX 6600 XT35

Intel Arc B580 is about 17% faster at 1080p.

Performance per dollar

1080p gaming score for every $100 of the card’s current cheapest price. Higher is better value.

Intel Arc B580

13.3

per $100 spent

Better value

Radeon RX 6600 XT

9.7

per $100 spent

Specs head-to-head

Intel Arc B580
Radeon RX 6600 XT
Price (from)
$309.99
$364.97
1080p gaming index
41
35
VRAM
12GB GDDR6
8GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
456 GB/s
256 GB/s
Boost clock
2670 MHz
2589 MHz
Shader cores
2,560
2,048
Ray tracing cores
20
32
Tensor / AI cores
160
TDP
190W
160W
Recommended PSU
600W
500W
Upscaling
XeSS 2, XeSS 2 Frame Generation
FSR 3, FSR 3 Frame Generation
Architecture
Battlemage BMG-G21
RDNA 2 Navi 23
Process node
TSMC N5
TSMC N7
MSRP
$249.00
$379.00

Productivity & compute

Intel Arc B580
Radeon RX 6600 XT
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics (points)
35,391
28,342
3DMark Steel Nomad (points)
3,055
1,793
Geekbench 7 OpenCL (points)
104,351
79,032
PassMark G3D (G3D Mark)
16,022
16,440
Render-Blender (samples/min)
1,814
1,128

Where to buy

Intel Arc B580from $309.99
From$309.99
3 versions in stock
Radeon RX 6600 XTfrom $364.97
From$364.97
5 versions in stock

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