AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

Price

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$ 369.99

$ 29.99 slightly less expensive

$ 399.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

354% significantly better overall score

1233 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

28 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

480% significantly higher Blender score

183.97 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

83409 points

959% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7870 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points

435% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

15421 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points

329% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

15021 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

109165 points

1287% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7870 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

370% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

17576 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

459% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16675 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

115% significantly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz

154% significantly higher boost clock speed

1019 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

87% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

408% significantly higher pixel rate

32.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

154% significantly higher texture rate

130.40 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.6 TFLOPS

238% significantly better floating point performance

3.13 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

33% slightly more shading units

1536

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

Identical

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

90th of 586

248th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 6600 XT vs GeForce GTX 690 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 690 in gaming.

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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 690 at 300 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 Radeon RX 6600 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 690.