Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB - video card comparison

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 4 GB

Architecture

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Navi 24

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

2815 MHz

1207 MHz

Core clock speed

2610 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,400 million

8,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

107 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

180.2

77.25

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

18000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

143.9 GB/s

192.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

2.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.3