NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 6600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 6600 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 111% (2491MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (132W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6600 +127%

8.928 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970

3625

Radeon RX 6600 +122%

8081

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

15

Radeon RX 6600 +126%

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

30

Radeon RX 6600 +136%

71

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

40

Radeon RX 6600 +215%

126

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 970

42

Radeon RX 6600 +42%

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 970

44

Radeon RX 6600 +50%

66

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 970

98

Radeon RX 6600 +85%

182

GeForce GTX 970

VS

Radeon RX 6600

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1626 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

2491 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

1664

Shading Units

1792

104

TMUs

112

56

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

159.4 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

279.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.86 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.928 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

558.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Navi 23

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 23 XL (215-130000016)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

132W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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