NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2624 points

5943 points

126% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

64 FPS

125 FPS

61 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

89 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

110 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

52 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

239 FPS

286 FPS

47 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

1141.36 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

87496 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

108282 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

2055 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

2635 MHz

75% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

280.3 GB/s

45% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

134% significantly lower TDP

176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

398% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

337.3 Gigatexels/s

398% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

10.79 TFLOPS

149% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

Identical

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 597

84th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs Radeon RX 6650 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6650 XT at 176 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6650 XT over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.