NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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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Price

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$ 868.99
$ 280.84
$ 588.15 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points
138% significantly better overall score
5943 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS
217 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
126 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS
79 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
89 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS
135 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
110 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS
83 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
52 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points
958% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1854 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points
388% significantly higher Blender score
1141.36 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
87496 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
108282 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz
2055 MHz
49% 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

12 GiB
49% significantly more memory
8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

912.4 GB/s
225% significantly higher memory bandwidth
280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W
176 W
98% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s
10% slightly higher pixel rate
168.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s
57% significantly higher texture rate
337.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS
216% significantly better floating point performance
10.79 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
400% significantly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
150% significantly more texture mapping units
128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
75% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 586
82nd 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 May
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
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 3080 Ti vs Radeon RX 6650 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti beats the Radeon RX 6650 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti over the Radeon RX 6650 XT.

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