NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 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

3523 points

4302 points

22% 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

55 FPS

65 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

78 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

8131 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

969.87 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

76157 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

61842 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

73158 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

86589 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1626 MHz

83% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

2491 MHz

110% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

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

384 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

64% significantly lower TDP

132 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

159.4 Gigapixels/s

110% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

279 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

8.93 TFLOPS

63% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

28% slightly more shading units

1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

28% slightly more texture mapping units

112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

118th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2021 October

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 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6600 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6600 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 at 132 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6600 over the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.