AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6600

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4321 points

4562 points

5% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

87 FPS

112 FPS

25 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

65 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

57 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

79 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

44 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

969.87 points

2352.59 points

142% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76157 points

92420 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61842 points

71210 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

73158 points

84300 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86589 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1626 MHz

80% significantly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2491 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

1703 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

5.97 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

132 W

80 W

64% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

159.4 Gigapixels/s

133% significantly higher pixel rate

68.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

279 Gigatexels/s

63% significantly higher texture rate

171 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.93 TFLOPS

10.94 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

3840

114% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

120

7% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

116th of 597

110th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 October

2021 January

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

Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 6600 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6600 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 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 the Radeon RX 6600 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 at 132 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop over the Radeon RX 6600.