AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 6600 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 43% higher core clock speed: 1968 MHz vs 1375 MHz
  • 12553x more texture fill rate: 331.4 GTexel/s vs 26.4 billion / sec
  • 21.3x more pipelines: 2048 vs 96
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 65 nm
  • 21.3x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 384 MB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 800 MHz
  • 51x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16471 vs 323
  • 10.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 911 vs 90
  • Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3367 vs 2160
  • Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3367 vs 2160
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 Jul 2021 vs 28 April 2008
Core clock speed 1968 MHz vs 1375 MHz
Texture fill rate 331.4 GTexel/s vs 26.4 billion / sec
Pipelines 2048 vs 96
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 384 MB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 16471 vs 323
PassMark - G2D Mark 911 vs 90
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3367 vs 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3367 vs 2160

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

  • Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 105 Watt vs 160 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 105 Watt vs 160 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
16471
323
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
911
90
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3367
2160
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3367
2160
Name AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
PassMark - G3D Mark 16471 323
PassMark - G2D Mark 911 90
Geekbench - OpenCL 82703
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 706.665
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 15486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3728
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3367 2160
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 15486
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3728
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3367 2160
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1804

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Tesla
Code name Navi 23 XT G92
Launch date 30 Jul 2021 28 April 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $379 $49.99
Place in performance rating 191 1430
Type Desktop Desktop
Price now $49.99
Value for money (0-100) 13.43

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2589 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 1968 MHz 1375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 65 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 662.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 21.21 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.60 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 96
Pixel fill rate 165.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 331.4 GTexel/s 26.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 160 Watt 105 Watt
Transistor count 11060 million 754 million
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 264 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVIHDTV
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Height 40 mm (1.6 inches) 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 190 mm (7.5 inches) 9" (22.9 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 6-pin
Width 110 mm (4.3 inches)
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.2 10.0
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 384 MB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR3

Technologies

CUDA