AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 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

$ 280.84
$ 85.75 significantly less expensive
$ 366.59

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points
6805 points
14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

125 FPS
167 FPS
41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

89 FPS
9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
80 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

110 FPS
118 FPS
8 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

52 FPS
63 FPS
12 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

60 FPS
74 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS
Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS
Identical
76 FPS
Fortnite FPS

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

286 FPS
109 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS
177 FPS
Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Low settings at 1080p

154 FPS
35 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS
119 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1854 points
11700 points
531% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1141.36 points
3000.82 points
162% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87496 points
112303 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

108282 points
115945 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2055 MHz
45% significantly higher core clock speed
1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2635 MHz
58% significantly higher boost clock speed
1665 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
256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

280.3 GB/s
448 GB/s
59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

176 W
13% slightly lower TDP
200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

168.6 Gigapixels/s
26% slightly higher pixel rate
133.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

337.3 Gigatexels/s
33% slightly higher texture rate
253.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.79 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
50% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
4864
137% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
152
18% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
80
25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

85th of 594
71st of 594

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May
2020 December

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

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs Radeon RX 6650 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti beats the Radeon RX 6650 XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6650 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 6650 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 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 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 3060 Ti is better than the Radeon RX 6650 XT.

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