AMD Radeon RX 6600 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 200.88
$ 29.11 slightly less expensive
$ 229.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4302 points
24% slightly better overall score
3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

86 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

65 FPS
24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
31 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

50 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS
41 FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

86 FPS
17 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS
69 FPS
Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

111 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS
83 FPS
God of War FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

77 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS
42 FPS
Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

87 FPS
Identical
87 FPS
Hogwarts Legacy FPS

Hogwarts Legacy FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

59 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Hogwarts Legacy FPS
49 FPS
Minecraft FPS

Minecraft FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

81 FPS
82 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Minecraft FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

70 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS
49 FPS
Rust FPS

Rust FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

72 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Rust FPS
59 FPS
THE FINALS FPS

THE FINALS FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

63 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher THE FINALS FPS
61 FPS
ULTRAKILL FPS

ULTRAKILL FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

98 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher ULTRAKILL FPS
70 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8131 points
30% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6224 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

969.87 points
1484.67 points
53% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76157 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
71667 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

61842 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
56109 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

73158 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
63483 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86589 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1626 MHz
4% slightly higher core clock speed
1552 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2491 MHz
40% slightly higher boost clock speed
1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
Identical
8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s
Identical
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

132 W
130 W
1% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

159.4 Gigapixels/s
180% significantly higher pixel rate
56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

279 Gigatexels/s
96% significantly higher texture rate
142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.93 TFLOPS
9.10 TFLOPS
1% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1792
2560
42% many more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
40% slightly more texture mapping units
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
100% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 586
139th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 October
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6600 vs GeForce RTX 3050 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6600 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 has a slightly 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 6600 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a slightly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6600 at 132 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6600 over the GeForce RTX 3050.

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