NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (170W vs 176W)
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 48% (2635MHz vs 1777MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+18%
12.74 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6650 XT
10.79 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
7384
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+34%
9926
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
3391
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+33%
4532
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
1621
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+4%
1699
Blender
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+92%
2499
Radeon RX 6650 XT
1299
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+18%
45
Radeon RX 6650 XT
38
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+10%
85
Radeon RX 6650 XT
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+10%
132
Radeon RX 6650 XT
119
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
29
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+3%
30
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
35
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+5%
37
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
55
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+7%
59
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
53
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+3%
55
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
98
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+13%
111
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
140
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+12%
157
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+18%
76
Radeon RX 6650 XT
64
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
82
Radeon RX 6650 XT
+3%
85
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
+2%
154
Radeon RX 6650 XT
150
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
May 2022
GeForce 30
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
2055 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
2635 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
2190 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
280.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
28
SM Count
-
3584
Shading Units
2048
112
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
64
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
32
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
168.6 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
337.3 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
21.59 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.79 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
674.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
176W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Navi 23
GA106-302-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 23 KXT
(215-130000136)
Ampere
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
7 nm
12 billion
Transistors
11.06 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
237 mm²
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
