AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 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
$ 1219.11 significantly less expensive
$ 1499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points
16207 points
172% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
382 FPS
257 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

89 FPS
188 FPS
98 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

110 FPS
275 FPS
165 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

52 FPS
151 FPS
99 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1854 points
21929 points
1082% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1141.36 points
6069.41 points
431% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87496 points
207329 points
136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

108282 points
187369 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2055 MHz
31% slightly higher core clock speed
1560 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2635 MHz
68% significantly higher boost clock speed
1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
24 GiB
200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
384 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

280.3 GB/s
1008 GB/s
259% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

176 W
155% significantly lower TDP
450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

168.6 Gigapixels/s
208.3 Gigapixels/s
23% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

337.3 Gigatexels/s
625 Gigatexels/s
85% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.79 TFLOPS
40 TFLOPS
270% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048
10752
424% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128
336
162% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
112
75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

82nd of 586
16th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 May
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 6650 XT vs GeForce RTX 3090 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti beats the Radeon RX 6650 XT in gaming performance.

The Radeon RX 6650 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 6650 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, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti over the Radeon RX 6650 XT.

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