AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

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

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6650 XT

10.79 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +18%

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6650 XT +12%

9897

GeForce RTX 3060

8767

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6650 XT

38

GeForce RTX 3060 +15%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6650 XT

77

GeForce RTX 3060 +3%

80

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +2%

119

GeForce RTX 3060

116

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6650 XT

30

GeForce RTX 3060

30

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +2%

37

GeForce RTX 3060

36

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +5%

59

GeForce RTX 3060

56

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6650 XT

55

GeForce RTX 3060

55

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +9%

111

GeForce RTX 3060

101

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +10%

157

GeForce RTX 3060

142

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +28%

64

GeForce RTX 3060

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +3%

85

GeForce RTX 3060

82

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6650 XT +12%

150

GeForce RTX 3060

133

Radeon RX 6650 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Jan 2021

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2055 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2635 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2190 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

280.3GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

32

RT Cores

28

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

168.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

337.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

21.59 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

10.79 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

674.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

GA106

Navi 23 KXT (215-130000136)

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

12 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

176W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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