AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, 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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$ 369.99

$ 171.96 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

12174 points

117% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

289 FPS

173 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

141 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

206 FPS

105 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

114 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9727 points

151% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

5402.96 points

405% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

168368 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

158623 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

2190 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz

6% 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

256 GB/s

360 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

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

194.4 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

64% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.6 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

228% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

7168

250% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

224

75% 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

90th of 597

31st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

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 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6600 XT in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a slightly 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. Despite this, the Radeon RX 6600 XT 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 RTX 4070 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the Radeon RX 6600 XT.