AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 200.88

$ 341.07 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4302 points

12174 points

182% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

86 FPS

289 FPS

203 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

65 FPS

141 FPS

77 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

206 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

114 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

111 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

108 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8131 points

110% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

969.87 points

5402.96 points

457% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

73158 points

168368 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86589 points

158623 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1626 MHz

2190 MHz

34% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2491 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

2430 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

360 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

132 W

127% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

159.4 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

21% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

279 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

95% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.93 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

290% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792

7168

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

224

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 586

31st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 October

2023 April

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 4070 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6600 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 6600 has a slightly 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 has a significantly lower TDP at 132 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 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 GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the Radeon RX 6600.