NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (2815MHz vs 1755MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +40%

8.087 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +166%

1566

Radeon RX 6500 XT

587

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +33%

20

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +61%

50

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +48%

70

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +7%

29

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +25%

65

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM +18%

82

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1755 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

2304

Shading Units

1024

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

126.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

8.087 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

8.087 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

126.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 24

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

107W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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