NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 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

23 %

53 %

130% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

45 FPS

111 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

82 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

97 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

47 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13595

83409

513% significantly higher Geekbench (Metal) score

Geekbench (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153

82559

183% significantly higher Geekbench (OpenCL) score

Geekbench (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107

64460

88% significantly higher Geekbench (Vulkan) score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3642

9708

166% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1968 MHz

87% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

2589 MHz

119% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

256 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

10% slightly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

165.7 Gigapixels/s

151% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

331.4 Gigatexels/s

170% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

10.6 TFLOPS

170% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

2048

23% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

128

23% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 533

36th of 533

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2014

November 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6600 XT beats the GeForce GTX 970 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 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 6600 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6600 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 XT at 160 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 970.