NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 330W)

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (2435MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX +174%

24.93 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

Radeon RX 6900 XTX

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1552 MHz

Base Clock

2075 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2435 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

2560

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

128

80

Tensor Cores

-

20

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

311.7 GPixel/s

142.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

779.2 GTexel/s

9.098 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

49.87 TFLOPS

9.098 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.93 TFLOPS

142.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.558 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA106-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XTXH (215-121000247)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

12 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

330W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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