NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6600M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600M 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
3903 points
1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS
92 FPS
16 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

58 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

52 FPS
77 FPS
26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
36 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5794 points
8165 points
40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

536.77 points
902.13 points
68% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40025 points
63711 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54616 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
47653 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

19520 points
95291 points
388% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43854 points
70251 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

47793 points
75065 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1076 MHz
2068 MHz
92% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1076 MHz
2416 MHz
124% 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
100 W
150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.3 Gigapixels/s
154.6 Gigapixels/s
49% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

189.4 Gigatexels/s
274.2 Gigatexels/s
44% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.06 TFLOPS
8.77 TFLOPS
44% 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

96
49% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

127th of 586
126th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs Radeon RX 6600M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6600M beats the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600M has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6600M 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 6600M 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 6600M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 250 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 6600M over the GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

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