AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3023 points

15% slightly better overall score

2615 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

64 FPS

Identical

64 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

56 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

26 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

25 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

422.78 points

1161.74 points

174% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

52512 points

55123 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39991 points

47251 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50916 points

51045 points

0.25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

59288 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53105 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2310 MHz

86% significantly higher core clock speed

1238 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2815 MHz

87% significantly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

Identical

4 GiB

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

75 W

42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

90.1 Gigapixels/s

166% significantly higher pixel rate

33.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

180.2 Gigatexels/s

166% significantly higher texture rate

67.65 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.77 TFLOPS

33% slightly better floating point performance

4.33 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

2048

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 586

170th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 January

2021 May

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 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6500 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6500 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 6500 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop.