NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6700

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 10 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 6700

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

5776 points

120% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

116 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

87 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

103 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

50 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

1351.36 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

92543 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

107859 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

1941 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

2450 MHz

63% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

10 GiB

150% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

320 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

133% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

156.8 Gigapixels/s

363% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

352.8 Gigatexels/s

421% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

11.29 TFLOPS

160% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

2304

12% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

125% 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

170th of 586

86th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2021 June

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 6700 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700 has significantly more memory with 10 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 6700 at 175 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.