NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (2815MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +517%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 +305%

19948

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +520%

93

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +396%

154

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +325%

200

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +371%

66

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +315%

79

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +267%

114

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +329%

116

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +263%

189

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +188%

199

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 +336%

131

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +323%

182

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +117%

209

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

82

SM Count

-

10496

Shading Units

1024

328

TMUs

64

112

ROPs

32

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

6 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

107W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Navi 24

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

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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