MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G has 1792 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.49 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 8.93 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G has 4864 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.74 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 16.93 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 28 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 38 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G GPU GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G
AMD Radeon RX 6600 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Navi 23 XL GPU Chip GA104-200-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Ampere
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 38
1792 Shader 4864
64 Render Output Units 80
112 Texture Units 152
28 Raytracing Cores 38

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G has a turbo clock of 2.491 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G is 1.740 GHz.

1.626 GHz Base Clock 1.410 GHz
2.491 GHz Boost Clock 1.740 GHz
2.04 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.67 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

132 W TDP 200 W
-- TDP (up) 220 W
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 37 dB

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

238 mm Length 282 mm
128 mm Height 117 mm
39 mm Width 41 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
605 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G was released in Q4/2021.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G published in Q4/2020 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

-- Part-no GV-N306TGAMING OC-8GD
Q4/2021 Release date Q4/2020
329 $ (Reference) Launch Price 449 $
7 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G
8 GB GDDR6
98 fps (avg)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G
8 GB GDDR6
125 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 ARMOR 8G
8 GB GDDR6
127 fps (avg)
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC 8G
8 GB GDDR6
173 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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