AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000

Price

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$ 369.99

$ 308.00 significantly less expensive

$ 677.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5600 points

5888 points

5% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

116 FPS

145 FPS

29 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

85 FPS

Identical

85 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

102 FPS

103 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

49 FPS

66 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9727 points

10586 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1068.60 points

2096.93 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559 points

105171 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460 points

73163 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82739 points

103585 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93271 points

93415 points

0.15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1620 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

1815 MHz

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

448 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W

43% significantly lower TDP

230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

116.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s

348.5 Gigatexels/s

5% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.6 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

5% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

3072

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

192

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

90th of 586

85th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 November

2018 August

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 Quadro RTX 5000 comparison

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 5000 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6600 XT in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6600 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 XT also 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 5000 at 230 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 Quadro RTX 5000 is better than the Radeon RX 6600 XT.