AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 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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$ 629.99

$ 229.99

$ 400.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points

307% significantly better overall score

3468 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS

204 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

82 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS

167 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS

198 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

59 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

31 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points

6224 points

53% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

1484.67 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

71667 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

56109 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

63483 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

62406 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

1552 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

128% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

130 W

130% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

406% significantly higher pixel rate

56.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s

406% significantly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS

153% significantly better floating point performance

9.10 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

100% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586

139th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

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 6900 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6900 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3050 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6900 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 6900 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6900 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 6900 XT at 300 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 6900 XT over the GeForce RTX 3050.