NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 4 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 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 6950 XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2615 points

14445 points

452% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

292 FPS

229 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

32 FPS

213 FPS

181 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

260 FPS

215 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

25 FPS

124 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1161.74 points

2747.99 points

136% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51045 points

176249 points

245% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53105 points

177326 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1238 MHz

1890 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1500 MHz

2310 MHz

53% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

16 GiB

300% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192 GB/s

576 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

346% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

33.82 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

774% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

67.65 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

992% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.33 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

446% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

5120

150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

400% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

170th of 586

20th of 586

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 6950 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6950 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 6950 XT 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6950 XT over the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.