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Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti leads on 6 of 7 shared benchmarks (72% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme); the Radeon RX 6600 XT takes 1 (7% in 3DMark Fire Strike). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 6600 XT generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 78.0 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (per TechReviewer), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 6600 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. Both released in 2021. MSRP range: $379 · $599. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecRadeon RX 6600 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
vram gb 88
vram type GDDR6GDDR6X
tdp w 160290
cuda cores —6144
rt cores 32—
process nm 7—

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Digital Trends, LanOC Reviews, HWCooling.net, OC Inside, Beebom, 3DMark, Notebookcheck, HWBOT, CpuTronic, Trusted Reviews and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 6600 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: Digital Trends, LanOC Reviews		 28,481 points26,516 points
3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics) (higher is better)
Source: HWCooling.net		 27,766 points—
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better)
Source: OC Inside		 12,070 points—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: OC Inside, Beebom, 3DMark, LanOC Reviews		 4,378 points8,717 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck, 3DMark		 —3,710 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck, HWBOT, 3DMark, CpuTronic		 1,793 points3,552 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 —15,570 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: OC Inside, Beebom, Digital Trends		 9,221 points14,354 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics) (higher is better)
Source: HWCooling.net		 9,418 points—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: Beebom, Trusted Reviews		 4,371 points7,526 points
3DMark Time Spy Graphics (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 —14,931 points
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 914 pts1,061 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Radeon RX 6600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 6600 XT or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti leads on 6 of 7 shared benchmarks (72% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme); the Radeon RX 6600 XT takes 1 (7% in 3DMark Fire Strike).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 6600 XT generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 78.0 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (per TechReviewer), best community run on file for each.

What did the Radeon RX 6600 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti cost at launch?

The Radeon RX 6600 XT launched at a $379 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at $599. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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