NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Price

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$ 879.85

$ 369.99

$ 509.86 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2494 points

5600 points

124% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

116 FPS

64 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

85 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

102 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

49 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4376 points

9727 points

122% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

367.38 points

1068.60 points

190% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

83409 points

450% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

82559 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

64460 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

15163 points

109165 points

619% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

82739 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

93271 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

1968 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1216 MHz

2589 MHz

112% 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

165 W

160 W

3% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

165.7 Gigapixels/s

112% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

331.4 Gigatexels/s

112% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.98 TFLOPS

10.6 TFLOPS

112% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

90th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2021 November

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 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT benchmarks

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

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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 980.