NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 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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$ 868.99

$ 369.99

$ 499.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points

153% significantly better overall score

5600 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS

227 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

116 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

85 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS

143 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

102 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

49 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points

101% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9727 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points

422% significantly higher Blender score

1068.60 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

209081 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

82559 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131975 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

64460 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

82739 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

93271 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz

1968 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2589 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

912.4 GB/s

256% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

160 W

118% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

165.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s

60% significantly higher texture rate

331.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS

221% significantly better floating point performance

10.6 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

400% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

150% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 586

90th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2021 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon RX 6600 XT comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6600 XT in our tests.

In our comparison, 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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is faster than the Radeon RX 6600 XT.