NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 280.3GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 176W)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +18%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6650 XT

10.79 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060

8760

Radeon RX 6650 XT +13%

9902

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +15%

44

Radeon RX 6650 XT

38

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

80

Radeon RX 6650 XT

77

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

116

Radeon RX 6650 XT +2%

119

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

30

Radeon RX 6650 XT

30

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

36

Radeon RX 6650 XT +2%

37

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

56

Radeon RX 6650 XT +5%

59

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

55

Radeon RX 6650 XT

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

101

Radeon RX 6650 XT +9%

111

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

142

Radeon RX 6650 XT +10%

157

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060

50

Radeon RX 6650 XT +28%

64

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

82

Radeon RX 6650 XT +3%

85

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

133

Radeon RX 6650 XT +12%

150

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon RX 6650 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2055 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2635 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2190 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

280.3GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

3584

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

64

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

32

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

168.6 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

337.3 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.59 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.79 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

674.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 23

GA106-300-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

170W

TDP

176W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-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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