GeForce GTX 960 and Radeon RX 6600 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT
GeForce GTX 960
6254
Radeon RX 6600 XT
16985
GeForce GTX 960
Radeon RX 6600 XT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
Navi 23
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2015
July 2021
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
2589 MHz
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
1968 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
-
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
11,060 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
160 (TGP) Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
331.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12.0 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
+
1.2
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-