Radeon RX 6600 VS GeForce RTX 3070
We are comparing the Radeon RX 6600 (AMD) with the GeForce RTX 3070 (NVIDIA). Scroll down to the pros and cons of each graphics card, in-depth specs, and gaming benchmarks.
Last Updated: September 19, 2026
Overall Comparison
KEY DIFFERENCES OF Radeon RX 6600 AND GeForce RTX 3070
Here’s how Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 3070 stack up against each other in their most impactful areas.
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600
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44% higher Boost Clock (2491 MHz vs 1725 MHz)
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13% smaller process node (7 nm vs 8 nm)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070
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39% higher 4K Ultra FPS (50 vs 36)
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35% higher 1440p Ultra FPS (88 vs 65)
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28% higher 1080p Ultra FPS (119 vs 93)
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31% higher 3DMark Time Spy score (13644 vs 10403)
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43% higher 3DMark Port Royal score (8312 vs 5818)
SPECIFICATION TABLE COMPARISON OF Radeon RX 6600 AND GeForce RTX 3070
Below is the detailed specification table comparing Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 3070.
Note: Highlighted specs mean that GPU wins that spec row.
If neither side is highlighted, it is a tie or there is not enough data for both specs.
| Specification | Radeon RX 6600 | GeForce RTX 3070 |
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General Info
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| GPU Name: | Radeon RX 6600 | GeForce RTX 3070 |
| GPU Type: | Discrete | Discrete |
| Codename: | Navi 23 | GA104 |
| Vendor: | AMD | NVIDIA |
| Foundry: | TSMC | Samsung |
| Architecture: | RDNA 2.0 | Ampere |
| Generation: | Navi II (RX 6000) | GeForce 30 |
| Release Date: | October 13, 2021 | October 29, 2020 |
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Board Design
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| Bus Interface: | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| PCIe Version: | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| PCIe Lanes: | 8 | 16 |
| Process Size: | 7 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors: | 11.06 billion | 17 billion |
| Density: | 46.7 MTr/mm² | 43.37 MTr/mm² |
| Die Size: | 237 mm² | 392 mm² |
| Board Length: | 190 mm | 242 mm |
| Board Width: | 40 mm | 40 mm |
| Board Height: | 110 mm | 112 mm |
| Total Graphics Power (TGP): | 132 W | 220 W |
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Graphics Processor
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| Compute Units: | 28 | 46 |
| Shading Units: | 1792 | 5888 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): | 112 | 184 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs): | 64 | 96 |
| Tensor Cores: | — | 184 |
| Ray Tracing Cores: | 28 | 46 |
| Base Clock: | 1626 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Boost Clock: | 2491 MHz | 1725 MHz |
| L1 Cache: | 128 KB per Array | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache: | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| L3 Cache: | 32 MB | — |
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Raw Performance
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| Pixel Fill Rate: | 159.4 GPixel/s | 165.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate: | 279.0 GTexel/s | 317.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance: | 8.928 TFLOPs | 20.31 TFLOPs |
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Memory
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| Memory Type: | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size: | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Bus Width: | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory Clock: | 1750 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed: | 14000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bandwidth: | 224 GB/s | 448 GB/s |
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APIs
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| DirectX: | 12.2 | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Vulkan: | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL: | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL: | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA: | — | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing: | 1 | 1 |
| DLSS: | 0 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort: | 1.4a | 1.4a |
| HDMI: | 2.1 | 2.1 |
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Gaming FPS
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| 1080p Ultra (FPS): | 93 | 119 |
| 1440p Ultra (FPS): | 65 | 88 |
| 4K Ultra (FPS): | 36 | 50 |
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Benchmarks
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3D Mark
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| Steel Nomad Lite | 10212 | 14152 |
| Time Spy | 10403 | 13644 |
| Solar Bay | 44756 | 64452 |
| Port Royal | 5818 | 8312 |
| Fire Strike | 26496 | 34056 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19820 | 28488 |
| Night Raid | 98341 | 122159 |
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GeekBench 6 OpenCL
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| Compute Score | 58048 | 126195 |
| Background Blur | 104.1 img/sec | 161.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 79.7 img/sec | 117.2 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.05 Gpixels/sec | 5.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 2.61 Gpixels/sec | 8.05 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.59 Gpixels/sec | 6.65 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.64 Gpixels/sec | 1.25 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 257.8 Gpixels/sec | 550.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7635.3 | 17613.1 |
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Passmark Graphics
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| G3D Mark | 15070 | 22112 |
| G2D Mark | 896 | 1005 |
| DirectX 11 | 153 | 183 |
| DirectX 12 | 51 | 84 |
| GPU Compute | 6480 | 11039 |
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GFXBench 5
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| Aztec Ruins High (4K) | 96.40 | 170.20 |
| Aztec Ruins Normal | 567.80 | 856.00 |
| Car Chase | — | 668.00 |
| Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p) | 427.90 | 592.90 |
| T-Rex | 1906.10 | 3078.40 |
| Tessellation | — | 4563.30 |
| ALU 2 | 2284.30 | 4531.50 |
| Driver Overhead 2 | 600.00 | 283.00 |
| API | Metal | OpenGL |
| OS | OS X | Windows |
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Blender (Rendering)
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| Blender Score | 977 | 3364 |
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GeekBench 6 ML
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| Single Precision | 12643 | 19789 |
| Half Precision | 15089 | 33013 |
| Quantized | 9547 | 12443 |
| Image Classification | 5441 | 7624 |
| Image Segmentation | 6810 | 23420 |
| Image Super Resolution | 15043 | 17898 |
| Face Detection | 19066 | 40535 |
| Pose Estimation | 58821 | 83624 |
| Text Classification | 1943 | 2724 |
| Machine Translation | 2928 | 4481 |
| Object Detection | 4309 | 10304 |
| Depth Estimation | 23470 | 30418 |
| Style Transfer | 132475 | 180089 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
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FurMark
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| 1080p Vulkan | 5893 | 10183 |
| 1440p Vulkan | 3869 | 6735 |
| 2160p Vulkan | 1836 | 3282 |
| 1080p OpenGL | 6509 | 9063 |
| 1440p OpenGL | 4172 | 6557 |
| 2160p OpenGL | 2090 | 3419 |
Tip: ▲ indicates a higher-is-better spec advantage, while ▼ indicates a lower-is-better advantage.
PERFORMANCE CHART COMPARISON OF Radeon RX 6600 AND GeForce RTX 3070
The charts below visualize how Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 3070 stack up in key performance metrics.
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Release Timeline of Radeon RX 6600 and GeForce RTX 3070
GeForce RTX 3070 was released 11 months, 14 days earlier than Radeon RX 6600.
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Domain Score Summary
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Our Verdict
In conclusion, the GeForce RTX 3070 is slightly better overall compared to the Radeon RX 6600. It comes out ahead across every comparable key area.
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