NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Price

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$ 857.08

$ 360.99

$ 496.09 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

73 %

35% slightly better overall score

54 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

180 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

111 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

92 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

83 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

97 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

72 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

47 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13548

39% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9708

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3529.72

252% significantly higher Blender score

1002.61

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

82559

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

64460

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128556

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

81591

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115911

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

97618

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

1968 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2589 MHz

50% 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

448 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

160 W

37% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

165.7 Gigapixels/s

0.06% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

331.4 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

91% significantly better floating point performance

10.6 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

187% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

43% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 549

39th of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2020

November 2021

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 3070 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6600 XT in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a slightly 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 Radeon RX 6600 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 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 GeForce RTX 3070 is better than the Radeon RX 6600 XT.