NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.99
$ 50.85 slightly less expensive
$ 280.84

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points
5943 points
71% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
126 FPS
43 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS
89 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS
110 FPS
52 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS
52 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

41 FPS
60 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

49 FPS
76 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS
Days Gone FPS

Days Gone FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

62 FPS
101 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Days Gone FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

287 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS
286 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6224 points
235% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1854 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
1141.36 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points
87496 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points
108282 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz
2055 MHz
32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
2635 MHz
48% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
Identical
8 GiB

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

224 GB/s
280.3 GB/s
25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W
35% slightly lower TDP
176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s
168.6 Gigapixels/s
196% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s
337.3 Gigatexels/s
137% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS
10.79 TFLOPS
18% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
25% slightly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
128
60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 586
82nd of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6650 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 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.

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