NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 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

3839 points

4302 points

12% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

86 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS

65 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS

78 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points

8131 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points

969.87 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

75685 points

287% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points

76157 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points

61842 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points

100044 points

412% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points

73158 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points

86589 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz

1626 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz

2491 MHz

131% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336.6 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

132 W

89% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s

159.4 Gigapixels/s

54% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s

279 Gigatexels/s

47% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS

8.93 TFLOPS

47% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

57% significantly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

57% significantly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586

118th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

2021 October

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 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 6600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6600 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 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 6600 has slightly more memory with 8 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 Radeon RX 6600 has a significantly lower TDP at 132 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6600 over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.