AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 369.99
$ 336.70
$ 33.29 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points
13% slightly better overall score
4933 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
114 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
65 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS
49 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9727 points
24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
7843 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points
2173.35 points
103% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points
85184 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points
66795 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points
84977 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
79052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz
95% significantly higher core clock speed
1005 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz
67% significantly higher boost clock speed
1545 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
Identical
8 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
416 GB/s
62% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W
Identical
160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s
67% significantly higher pixel rate
98.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s
48% significantly higher texture rate
222.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.6 TFLOPS
48% significantly better floating point performance
7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
2304
12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
144
12% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
Identical
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

90th of 586
103rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November
2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6600 XT vs Quadro RTX 4000 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card is better than the Quadro RTX 4000 in our tests.

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 6600 XT and the Quadro RTX 4000 have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6600 XT over the Quadro RTX 4000.

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