AMD Radeon RX 6600S vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6600S and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6600S

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • Around 83% higher boost clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1095 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 150 Watt
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 29 January 2019
Core clock speed 1700 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

  • Around 64% higher pipelines: 2944 vs 1792
  • 6.9x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 525 vs 520
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13010 vs 12445
  • Around 26% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 83908 vs 66815
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2944 vs 1792
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 525 vs 520
PassMark - G3D Mark 13010 vs 12445
Geekbench - OpenCL 83908 vs 66815

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6600S
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
520
525
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12445
13010
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
66815
83908
Name AMD Radeon RX 6600S NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
PassMark - G2D Mark 520 525
PassMark - G3D Mark 12445 13010
Geekbench - OpenCL 66815 83908
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 297.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3676.805
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 22.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 162.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1116.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8905
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8060
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19139
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8905
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8060
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7823

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6600S NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Code name Navi 23 TU104B
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 29 January 2019
Place in performance rating 147 149
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2000 MHz 1095 MHz
Compute units 28
Core clock speed 1700 MHz 735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 12 nm
Pipelines 1792 2944
Pixel fill rate 128.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 224.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 11060 million 13,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6