NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 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

3514 points

5600 points

59% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

75 FPS

116 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

52 FPS

85 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

102 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

49 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5621 points

9727 points

73% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1382.74 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

1068.60 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61701 points

82559 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51683 points

64460 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64897 points

82739 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59548 points

93271 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

975 MHz

1968 MHz

101% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

2589 MHz

118% 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

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

264 GB/s

3% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

146% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.88 Gigapixels/s

165.7 Gigapixels/s

191% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

331.4 Gigatexels/s

133% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.55 TFLOPS

10.6 TFLOPS

132% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2048

6% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

128

6% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

138th of 586

90th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 January

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6600 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6600 XT over the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.