NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
92% significantly better overall score
2735 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
65 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
42 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
53 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
508% significantly higher Blender score
380.88 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45145 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53865 points

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
200% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
150% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
9% slightly higher texture rate
182.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
119% significantly better floating point performance
5.8 TFLOPS

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
-

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 6550M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6550M in our tests.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 over the Radeon RX 6550M.

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