NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 280.3GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2635MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (176W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +88%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6650 XT

10.79 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +37%

13637

Radeon RX 6650 XT

9897

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +39%

53

Radeon RX 6650 XT

38

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +23%

95

Radeon RX 6650 XT

77

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +21%

144

Radeon RX 6650 XT

119

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +53%

46

Radeon RX 6650 XT

30

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +51%

56

Radeon RX 6650 XT

37

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +38%

82

Radeon RX 6650 XT

59

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +47%

81

Radeon RX 6650 XT

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +27%

141

Radeon RX 6650 XT

111

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +19%

188

Radeon RX 6650 XT

157

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +7%

69

Radeon RX 6650 XT

64

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +23%

105

Radeon RX 6650 XT

85

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +6%

159

Radeon RX 6650 XT

150

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon RX 6650 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

2055 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

2635 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2190 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

280.3GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

5888

Shading Units

2048

184

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

32

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

168.6 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

337.3 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.59 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.79 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

674.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 23

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 23 KXT (215-130000136)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

176W

550 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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