AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +517%

35.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

GeForce RTX 3090 +304%

19908

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

GeForce RTX 3090 +520%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce RTX 3090 +396%

154

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

GeForce RTX 3090 +325%

200

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

GeForce RTX 3090 +371%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

GeForce RTX 3090 +315%

79

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce RTX 3090 +267%

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

GeForce RTX 3090 +329%

116

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

GeForce RTX 3090 +263%

189

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GeForce RTX 3090 +188%

199

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GeForce RTX 3090 +340%

132

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GeForce RTX 3090 +323%

182

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 3090 +117%

209

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2020

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

82

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

10496

64

TMUs

328

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

328

16

RT Cores

82

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GA102

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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