NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 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 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (2815MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +120%

12.74 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 +78%

8760

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +193%

44

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +158%

80

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +146%

116

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +114%

30

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +89%

36

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +80%

56

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +103%

55

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +94%

101

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +105%

142

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 +66%

50

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 +90%

82

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 +38%

133

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

3584

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 24

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

12 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

107W

450 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 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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