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Geforce GTX 680 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

The Geforce GTX 680 has a clock frequency of 1006 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1502 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1536 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6600, which features GPU core speed of 1626 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6600 132 Watts
Geforce GTX 680 195 Watts
Difference: 63 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6600 should perform a bit faster than the Geforce GTX 680 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680 192256 MB/sec
Difference: 37120 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is much (about 41%) better at texture filtering than the Geforce GTX 680. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 182112 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 680 128768 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 53344 (41%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be quite a bit (more or less 223%) better at FSAA than the Geforce GTX 680, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 104064 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680 32192 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 71872 (223%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Geforce GTX 680 Radeon RX 6600
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2012 October 2021
Code Name GK104 Navi 23
Memory 2048 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1006 MHz 1626 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 195 watts 132 watts
Bandwidth 192256 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128768 Mtexels/sec 182112 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32192 Mpixels/sec 104064 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 1792
Texture Mapping Units 128 112
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 3540 million 11060 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Geforce GTX 680

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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