NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (2815MHz vs 1665MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +181%

16.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +136%

11654

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +226%

49

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +200%

93

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +174%

129

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +192%

41

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +152%

48

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +132%

72

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +151%

68

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +134%

122

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +140%

166

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +106%

62

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +130%

99

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +55%

149

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

4864

Shading Units

1024

152

TMUs

64

80

ROPs

32

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 24

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

107W

550 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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