AMD Radeon Pro W6600M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6600M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro W6600M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1050 MHz
2.5x more boost clock speed: 2903 MHz vs 1178 MHz
2982.6x more texture fill rate: 325.1 GTexel/s vs 109 billion / sec
Around 8% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1664
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
Around 85% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 148 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
250x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 7.0 GB/s
Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 15257 vs 11499
Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 15257 vs 11499
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 3340
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 3340

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 Jun 2021 vs 19 September 2014
Core clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Boost clock speed	2903 MHz vs 1178 MHz
Texture fill rate	325.1 GTexel/s vs 109 billion / sec
Pipelines	1792 vs 1664
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt vs 148 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 7.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15257 vs 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15257 vs 11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716 vs 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716 vs 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358 vs 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358 vs 3340

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6600M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

15257

11499

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

15257

11499

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3716

3698

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3716

3698

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

3340

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3358

3340

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W6600M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	15257	11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	15257	11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3716	3698
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3716	3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358	3340
PassMark - G3D Mark		9646
PassMark - G2D Mark		773
Geekbench - OpenCL		27020
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		105.107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1225.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		8.76
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		489.884
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3622

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W6600M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Navi 23	GM204
Launch date	8 Jun 2021	19 September 2014
Place in performance rating	270	357
Launch price (MSRP)		$329
Price now		$407.76
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		28.59
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2903 MHz	1178 MHz
Compute units	28
Core clock speed	2200 MHz	1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	650.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	20.81 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.40 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1792	1664
Pixel fill rate	185.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	325.1 GTexel/s	109 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	148 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		1664
Floating-point performance		3,920 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		98 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pins
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)		500 Watt
SLI options		4x
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	224 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround