NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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

$ 366.59
$ 280.84
$ 85.75 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points
14% slightly better overall score
5943 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

167 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
126 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS
89 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
110 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
52 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

74 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS
60 FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS
Identical
76 FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

177 FPS
286 FPS
109 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS
Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Low settings at 1080p

119 FPS
154 FPS
35 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points
531% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1854 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points
162% significantly higher Blender score
1141.36 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
87496 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
108282 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz
2055 MHz
45% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz
2635 MHz
58% 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

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
59% significantly higher memory bandwidth
280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W
176 W
13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s
168.6 Gigapixels/s
26% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s
337.3 Gigatexels/s
33% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS
50% significantly better floating point performance
10.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864
137% significantly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152
18% slightly more texture mapping units
128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

80
25% slightly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586
82nd of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December
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 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 6650 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti beats the Radeon RX 6650 XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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. 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 Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is better than the Radeon RX 6650 XT.

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