AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 424.97

$ 229.99

$ 194.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7241 points

108% significantly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

147 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

131 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

62 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

12827 points

106% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6224 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1515.19 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

1484.67 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102988 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

71667 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70085 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

100963 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114437 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2321 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1552 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2581 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

71% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

230 W

130 W

76% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.2 Gigapixels/s

190% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

413 Gigatexels/s

190% significantly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.21 TFLOPS

45% significantly better floating point performance

9.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

Identical

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

64th of 586

139th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March

2022 January

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 6700 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700 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 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6700 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3050.