AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Around 52% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1515 MHz
Around 60% higher boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 1755 MHz
Around 43% higher texture fill rate: 180.2 GTexel/s vs 126.4 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 107 Watt vs 130 Watt
Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1515 MHz
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz vs 1755 MHz
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s vs 126.4 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt vs 130 Watt
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 965 vs 809
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11931 vs 9556
Around 25% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 60586 vs 48562
5.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1328 vs 224

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2304 vs 1024
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	965 vs 809
PassMark - G3D Mark	11931 vs 9556
Geekbench - OpenCL	60586 vs 48562
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1328 vs 224

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

809

965

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9556

11931

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

48562

60586

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

224

1328

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark	809	965
PassMark - G3D Mark	9556	11931
Geekbench - OpenCL	48562	60586
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	224	1328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		207.741
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2525.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		19.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		87.152
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		806.848

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 24	GA106
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	4 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	208	206
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	1755 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)	126.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)	8.087 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.765 TFLOPS	8.087 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2304
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s	56.16 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s	126.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	130 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	12000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 4.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin
Length		242 mm, 9.5 inches
Width		112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.2	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s	224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6