AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

3152 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

75 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

36 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

54 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

29 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

1508.43 points

256% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

54544 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

57342 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

116% significantly higher core clock speed

1065 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

109% significantly higher boost clock speed

1343 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144 GB/s

192 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

107 W

45 W

137% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

109% significantly higher pixel rate

42.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

139% significantly higher texture rate

75.21 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1792

75% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

14% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

151st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

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

Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in our tests.

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT at 107 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 3050 A Laptop is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.