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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 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

3523 points

5600 points

58% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

116 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

85 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

102 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

49 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

9727 points

39% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

1068.60 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

82559 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

64460 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

82739 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

93271 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

1968 MHz

122% 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

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

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

100% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

165.7 Gigapixels/s

118% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

331.4 Gigatexels/s

94% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

10.6 TFLOPS

94% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

12% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

12% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

90th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 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 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6600 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6600 XT 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 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 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 GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.