NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 259.99

$ 1290.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

362% significantly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

269 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

123 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

185 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

301% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

1276% significantly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

290% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52512 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

247% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

39991 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

281% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

50916 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

203% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59288 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2310 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2815 MHz

66% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

499% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

499% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

550% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

107 W

227% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

110% significantly higher pixel rate

90.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

208% significantly higher texture rate

180.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

516% significantly better floating point performance

5.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

924% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

412% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

250% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.