AMD Radeon RX 6500M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500M and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB 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.

AMD Radeon RX 6500M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500M

Around 29% higher core clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Around 38% higher boost clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 153.6 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 8 nm
Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 90 Watt
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz vs 1740 MHz
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s vs 125.3 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 90 Watt
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 942 vs 386
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12873 vs 7533
Around 27% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 49885 vs 39298

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2022 vs 4 Jan 2022
Pipelines	2304 vs 1024
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	942 vs 386
PassMark - G3D Mark	12873 vs 7533
Geekbench - OpenCL	49885 vs 39298

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

386

942

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7533

12873

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

39298

49885

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	386	942
PassMark - G3D Mark	7533	12873
Geekbench - OpenCL	39298	49885

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500M	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 24	GA107
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	2022
Place in performance rating	295	88
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2400 MHz	1740 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2000 MHz	1545 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	307.2 GFLOPS (1:16)	125.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	9.830 TFLOPS (2:1)	8.018 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.915 TFLOPS	8.018 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2304
Pixel fill rate	76.80 GPixel/s	55.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	153.6 GTexel/s	125.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	90 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		242 mm, 9.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)		250 Watt
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	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6