AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro K6000

Price

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$ 369.99

$ 269.96

$ 100.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

239% significantly better overall score

1650 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

24 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

201% significantly higher Blender score

354.70 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

83409 points

654% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

11048 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points

368% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

17636 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22673 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

109165 points

1276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7932 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23863 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

267% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

25409 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

146% significantly higher core clock speed

797 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz

187% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 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

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

40% slightly lower TDP

225 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

206% significantly higher pixel rate

54.12 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

53% significantly higher texture rate

216.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.6 TFLOPS

104% significantly better floating point performance

5.20 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2880

40% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

240

87% significantly 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

90th of 586

229th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 6600 XT vs Quadro K6000 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card is better than the Quadro K6000 in our tests.

In our comparison, 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro K6000 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 slightly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the Quadro K6000 at 225 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 Quadro K6000.