NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 176W)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (2635MHz vs 1777MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6650 XT +18%

10.79 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

6254

Radeon RX 6650 XT +58%

9897

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

20

Radeon RX 6650 XT +90%

38

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

42

Radeon RX 6650 XT +83%

77

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

Radeon RX 6650 XT +45%

119

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

22

Radeon RX 6650 XT +36%

30

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

28

Radeon RX 6650 XT +32%

37

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

38

Radeon RX 6650 XT +55%

59

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

29

Radeon RX 6650 XT +89%

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

65

Radeon RX 6650 XT +70%

111

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

82

Radeon RX 6650 XT +91%

157

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

40

Radeon RX 6650 XT +60%

64

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

48

Radeon RX 6650 XT +77%

85

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

114

Radeon RX 6650 XT +31%

150

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 6650 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

2055 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2635 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2190 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

280.3GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

2560

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

32

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

168.6 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

337.3 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.59 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.79 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

674.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 23

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 23 KXT (215-130000136)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

176W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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