NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

2% slightly better overall score

5600 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

116 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

85 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

102 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

49 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8470 points

9727 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

1068.60 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87462 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

82559 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70522 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

64460 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

82739 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

93271 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1968 MHz

167% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

975 MHz

2589 MHz

165% 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

352 GB/s

37% slightly 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

62.4 Gigapixels/s

165.7 Gigapixels/s

165% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

331.4 Gigatexels/s

77% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

10.6 TFLOPS

76% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

49% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

49% significantly 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

87th of 586

90th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

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 2080 SUPER 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 2080 SUPER Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 XT at 160 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.