NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 6600 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 NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

  • Around 38% higher texture fill rate: 386.3 GTexel/s vs 279.0 GTexel/s
  • 4.1x more pipelines: 7424 vs 1792
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
  • Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 132 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
  • Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 22442 vs 15132
  • 2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 145942 vs 72822
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 386.3 GTexel/s vs 279.0 GTexel/s
Pipelines 7424 vs 1792
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 132 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 22442 vs 15132
Geekbench - OpenCL 145942 vs 72822

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6600

  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1626 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • Around 50% higher boost clock speed: 2491 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 878 vs 733
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1626 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed 2491 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 878 vs 733

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6600

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
733
878
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22442
15132
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
145942
72822
Name NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 6600
PassMark - G2D Mark 733 878
PassMark - G3D Mark 22442 15132
Geekbench - OpenCL 145942 72822
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 8077

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation AMD Radeon RX 6600

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace RDNA 2.0
Code name AD104 Navi 23 XL
Place in performance rating 43 40
Launch date 13 Oct 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $329
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 2491 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 1626 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 7 nm
Pipelines 7424 1792
Pixel fill rate 133.2 GPixel/s 159.4 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 386.3 GTexel/s 279.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt 132 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 11060 million
Compute units 28
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

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin
Height 40 mm (1.6 inches)
Length 190 mm (7.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 300 Watt
Width 110 mm (4.3 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 432.0 GB/s 224 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6