Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh - video card comparison
Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh
Architecture
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Navi 24
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2022
July 2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
2815 MHz
990 MHz
Core clock speed
2610 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,400 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
107 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
180.2
63.36
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
18000 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
143.9 GB/s
144.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
2.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.6
Vulkan
1.3
1.3