NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

7241 points

123% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

73 FPS

148 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

108 FPS

62 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

131 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

62 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

12827 points

158% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

1515.19 points

100% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

102988 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

70085 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

100963 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

114437 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

2321 MHz

103% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

2581 MHz

93% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

12 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

288 GB/s

384 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

283% significantly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

157% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

413 Gigatexels/s

222% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

222% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2560

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

145th of 586

64th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6700 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q.