NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points
2735 points
235% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS
61 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
42 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS
53 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
24 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points
380.88 points
210% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points
45145 points
297% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points
53865 points
354% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB
4 GiB
33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144.2 GB/s
0.14% slightly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
120% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
192% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

24
64
166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

276th of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon RX 6550M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6550M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 660 in gaming.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6550M has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6550M over the GeForce GTX 660.

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