NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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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AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Price

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$ 754.99

$ 368.99

$ 386.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %

59 %

15% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

122 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS

90 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS

109 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

51 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8714

10005

14% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.24

141% significantly higher Blender score

1014.25

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89260

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

84651

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85064

95639

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

2055 MHz

55% significantly 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

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

3% slightly lower TDP

176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

97% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

337.3 Gigatexels/s

69% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

10.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

75% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

128

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

42nd of 360

37th of 360

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

May 2022

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 3060 vs Radeon RX 6650 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

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. 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6650 XT at 176 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6650 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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