NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 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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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 520.00 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3468 points

14445 points

316% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

292 FPS

210 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

213 FPS

172 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS

260 FPS

202 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

31 FPS

124 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6224 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1484.67 points

2747.99 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63483 points

176249 points

177% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62406 points

177326 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1552 MHz

1890 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2310 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% 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

224 GB/s

576 GB/s

157% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

130 W

157% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

56.86 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

420% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

142.2 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

419% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.10 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

159% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

5120

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

300% 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

139th of 586

20th 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT benchmarks

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly 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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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