AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Price

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$ 369.99

$ 349.95

$ 20.04 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

2529% significantly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

1720% significantly higher Blender score

58.69 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

83409 points

3495% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2320 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points

1845% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4243 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points

1434% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4201 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

109165 points

4631% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2307 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

1860% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4221 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

2076% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4286 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

219% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

64 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

1985% significantly higher pixel rate

7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

942% significantly higher texture rate

31.78 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

433% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

90th of 586

418th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6600 XT vs GeForce GT 740 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 740 in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is better than the GeForce GT 740.

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