GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q and Radeon RX 6600 XT - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q

Radeon RX 6600 XT

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GN20-E3 GA106

Navi 23

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

July 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1283 MHz

2589 MHz

Core clock speed

1968 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

13,250 million

11,060 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

160 (TGP) Watt

Texture fill rate

153.8

331.4

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12.0 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.2