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Review

Radeon RX 6600M
GeForce GTX 970
Gaming
24
12
Workstation
29
21
AI/ML
25
11
Energy Efficiency
60
10
Quick Comparison Final Score
31
15
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between Radeon RX 6600M and GeForce GTX 970

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6600M

  • + RDNA 2.0 architecture
  • + Navi 23 codename
  • + 8GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 4.0 x8 interface

Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 970

  • + Maxwell 2.0 architecture
  • + GM204 codename
  • + 4GB GDDR5 memory
  • + PCIe 3.0 x16 interface

Pros & Cons

Radeon RX 6600M
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No DLSS upscaling support
  • Older generation architecture

"A budget AMD Radeon RX 6600M graphics card with limited performance overall. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

GeForce GTX 970
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • Low energy efficiency
  • Limited gaming performance at higher resolutions
  • No hardware ray tracing
  • No DLSS upscaling support
  • Older generation architecture

"A budget Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card with limited performance overall, higher power consumption. Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
60
32
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970

The Witcher 3

1080p High
81
35
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
111
57
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970

Far Cry 6

1080p High
75
39
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
47
18
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970

Call of Duty

1080p High
71
31
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
49
17
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
53
24
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970

Tomb Raider

1080p High
89
44
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970
FPS Table
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 60 — — — 32 — — —
The Witcher 3 81 — — — 35 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 111 — — — 57 — — —
Far Cry 6 75 — — — 39 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 47 — — — 18 — — —
Call of Duty 71 — — — 31 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 49 — — — 17 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 53 — — — 24 — — —
Tomb Raider 89 — — — 44 — — —
Average FPS 71——— 33———
Average FPS by Resolution
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970
1080p High 90 44
1080p Ultra 71 33
1440p Ultra 48 23
4K Ultra 25 12
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon RX 6600M +96%
7012
GeForce GTX 970
3577
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970
Time Spy 8011 3666
Solar Bay 30083 —
Port Royal 3880 4353
Fire Strike 23175 12102
Wild Life Extreme 14422 6972
Night Raid 95245 47591
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
Radeon RX 6600M +44%
13906
GeForce GTX 970
9639
Radeon RX 6600M GeForce GTX 970
G2D Mark 724 763
DirectX 11 137 FPS 71 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 41 FPS
GPU Compute 5593 Ops/s 4080 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
Radeon RX 6600M +215%
904.6
GeForce GTX 970
286.89

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification Radeon RX 6600M ↗ GeForce GTX 970 ↗
GB6 Compute Score 71125 28989
Background Blur 176.1 img/sec 77.1 img/sec
Face Detection 102.4 img/sec 38.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.19 Gpixels/sec 1.28 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.1 Gpixels/sec 2.08 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.8 Gpixels/sec 1.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.78 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 313.2 Gpixels/sec 92.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8768.9 FPS 2443 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification Radeon RX 6600M ↗ GeForce GTX 970 ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 14016 6791
GB6 ML Half Precision 16471 6738
GB6 ML Quantized 11065 5128
Image Classification (SP) 6355 1852
Image Segmentation (HP) 7183 3622
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16962 8987
Face Detection (HP) 20793 7074
Pose Estimation (Q) 65012 43726
Text Classification (SP) 2139 1446
Machine Translation (HP) 3411 1576
Object Detection (SP) 5102 2425
Depth Estimation (Q) 26194 12902
Style Transfer (SP) 139748 86714
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
General
Specification Radeon RX 6600M ↗ GeForce GTX 970 ↗
Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 1, 2021 September 19, 2014
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Maxwell 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 23 GM204
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 5 5600Hor above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification Radeon RX 6600M ↗ GeForce GTX 970 ↗
Base Clock 1489 MHz 1050 MHz
Boost Clock 1520-2177 MHz (configurable) 1178 MHz
Shading Units 1792 1664
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112 104
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 56
Compute Units (Pipelines) 28 13
Tensor Cores No
Ray-tracing Cores 28 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification Radeon RX 6600M ↗ GeForce GTX 970 ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 97-139 GPixel/s 66 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 170-244 GTexel/s 123 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 5.4-7.8 TFLOPS 3.9 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification Radeon RX 6600M ↗ GeForce GTX 970 ↗
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 50-100 W (configurable) 148 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 28 nm
Die Size 237 mm² 398 mm²
Transistor Count 11.06 billion 5 billion
Transistor Density 46.67 MTr/mm² 12.56 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification Radeon RX 6600M ↗ GeForce GTX 970 ↗
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
API
Specification Radeon RX 6600M ↗ GeForce GTX 970 ↗
DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3
CUDA 5.2
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 1.2

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