AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (2250MHz vs 1755MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (130W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XT +184%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

8.087 TFLOPS

Blender

Radeon RX 6900 XT +84%

2883

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

1566

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +295%

79

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +184%

142

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +177%

194

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

70

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +293%

114

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

29

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +207%

200

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

65

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +145%

201

GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

82

Radeon RX 6900 XT

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GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1755 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

18

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

2304

320

TMUs

72

128

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

72

80

RT Cores

18

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.16 GPixel/s

720.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

126.4 GTexel/s

46.08 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.087 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.087 TFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

126.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA106

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

130W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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