NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB 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 3050 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (168.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (70W vs 107W)

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 91% (2815MHz vs 1470MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB +17%

6.774 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

4831

Radeon RX 6500 XT +1%

4920

GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1042 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

64bit

168.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

18

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

2304

Shading Units

1024

72

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

47.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

105.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

6.774 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

6.774 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

105.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Navi 24

GA107-325-K2-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

107W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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