AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6600 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 - 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), 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.

AMD Radeon RX 6600

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6600

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1626 MHz vs 1152 MHz
Around 81% higher boost clock speed: 2491 MHz vs 1379 MHz
8429x more texture fill rate: 279.0 GTexel/s vs 33.1 GTexel / s
4.7x more pipelines: 1792 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 14 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
2.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1492 vs 629

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Oct 2021 vs 12 March 2018
Core clock speed	1626 MHz vs 1152 MHz
Boost clock speed	2491 MHz vs 1379 MHz
Texture fill rate	279.0 GTexel/s vs 33.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1492 vs 629

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

6.6x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 132 Watt
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 132 Watt
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1492

629

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6600	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
PassMark - G3D Mark	15097
PassMark - G2D Mark	882
Geekbench - OpenCL	73020
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	260.061
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	5472.868
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	20.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	290.312
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1152.228
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	19713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	26778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	69225
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	19713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	26778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	69225
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1492	629

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6600	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Pascal
Code name	Navi 23 XL	GP108
Launch date	13 Oct 2021	12 March 2018
Launch price (MSRP)	$329	$79
Place in performance rating	38	1476
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2491 MHz	1379 MHz
Compute units	28
Core clock speed	1626 MHz	1152 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	558.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	17.86 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.928 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1792	384
Pixel fill rate	159.4 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	279.0 GTexel/s	33.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	132 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	1,800 million
Floating-point performance		1,059 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	40 mm (1.6 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x4
Length	190 mm (7.5 inches)	145 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
Width	110 mm (4.3 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	16.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	2100 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR4