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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 comes with a clock speed of 1552 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6600, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1626 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050 130 Watts
Radeon RX 6600 132 Watts
Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same memory bandwidth, so in theory they should have the same performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is a lot (more or less 47%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 124160 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 57952 (47%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be quite a bit (approximately 110%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce RTX 3050, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 54400 (110%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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GeForce RTX 3050

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Radeon RX 6600
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 October 2021
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Navi 23
Memory 8192 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 1626 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 1750 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 132 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 182112 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 104064 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 1792
Texture Mapping Units 80 112
Render Output Units 32 64
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 7 nm
Transistors 12000 million 11060 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3050

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Radeon RX 6600

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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