AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 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

$ 360.99
$ 299.99
$ 61.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

54 %
54% significantly better overall score
35 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

83 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
43 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
61 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9708
56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6202
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1002.61
1588.40
58% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

82559
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
71667
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64460
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
56109
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

81591
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
65778
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

97618
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
64788

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1968 MHz
26% slightly higher core clock speed
1552 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2589 MHz
45% significantly 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

256 GB/s
14% slightly higher memory bandwidth
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W
130 W
23% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.7 Gigapixels/s
191% significantly higher pixel rate
56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

331.4 Gigatexels/s
133% significantly higher texture rate
142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.6 TFLOPS
16% slightly better floating point performance
9.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
2560
25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
60% significantly 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

40th of 550
71st of 550

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

November 2021
January 2022

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 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6600 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 XT has a slightly 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 6600 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, 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 XT at 160 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 Radeon RX 6600 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3050.

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